THE 



POST FAMILY 



BY 

Marie Caroline de Trobriand Post 

(Mrs. Charles Alfred Post) 



190S. 

STERLING POTTER, 

New York. 






LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
TwoCoDics Received 

FEB 21 1906 

v9 . CoDyrient Entry 
CLASS /a, xxc. No 

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COPY e. 



Copyright, 1905, 



MARIE CAROLINE DE TROBRIAND POST. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PORTRAITS. 



Wright Post, M. D. 
Joel Post. 
Allison Post. 



COATS OF ARMS. 



Frontispiece. 

(Arms carried by descendants of Jotham Post of New York.) 

Post — Germany. 

Post — Hanover, Prussia, Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck. 

Post — Hesse. 

Post — Denmark, Norway and Sweden. 

Post — Austrian-Silesia. 

Post — Amsterdam, Holland, Leiden, Utrecht, Holland 

AND Groningen. 
Pieter Post. 
Dr. Johan Post. 
Post — England. 



POST FAMILY 



PREFACE. 



The title of this book may be misleading and 
perhaps cause disappointment to many who ex- 
pect to find a detailed history of every branch of 
the Post family in America. I trust its opening 
pages, giving an account of the POST family in 
Europe, may prove a compensation, as those bearing 
the name in all parts of the United States must be in- 
terested to know something of their common origin. 

A history of the POST family in America would be 
a web almost impossible to disentangle, owing, not 
only to the fact that there are descendants of those 
who came from Holland and those who came from 
England about the same time — not to speak of the 
more recent arrivals from Germany — but the records 
in those early days were so badly kept on Long Island 
and elsewhere that it has been a most difficult under- 
taking to procure the material necessary for the 
single chain of JOTHAM POST'S descent from Lieu- 
tenant Richard Post, of Southampton. Thompson, 
in his history of Long Island, says: 

"Another and more formidable embarrassment 
presented itself in the progress of the compiler's re- 
searches, which was in great measure unexpected, 
and had well nigh persuaded him to relinguish his 



viii Preface. 

further labor after a considerable mass of material 
had been collected. This arose from the peculiar 
condition and deficiency of the records of many of 
the twenty-one towns which he examined. In gen- 
eral, they are almost entirely wanting in matters of 
antiquity, and in others have been so negligently kept 
as to be in great measure incapable of being under- 
stood." 

It often happens that one who marries into a fami- 
ly and makes a point of studying relationships knows 
more on the subject than the actual born members. 
These take no thought on the subject until a wedding 
or funeral brings a family gathering, when the 
younger members are sure to question how they are 
related to heretofore ignored cousins. 

This work was begun with no other object than to 
answer oft-put questions. 

Taking JOTHAM POST, the founder of the New 
York branch, as a common ancestor, I wrote down a 
history of his descendants. With the help of all the 
elder members of the family, who kindly gave me 
their records from family Bibles and papers, I was 
soon in possession of a full history of this part of the 
Post family. Writing it was a pleasure and com- 
paratively easy, but the interest grew in proportion 
as the work progressed, and it seemed unfinished if 
a history of JOTHAM Post's descendants were not 
preceded by a history of his ancestors. 

Climbing the ladder was far more difficult than 
descending it, and I realized the truth of Thompson's 



Preface. ix 

words when the task began of searching records. 
Many times I stopped, discouraged, feeling it was 
hopeless to work on, but help always came, 
sometimes in the most unexpected way. At last 
the history is finished and complete, but I owe 
the result to the assistance given me by Miss 
Phebe Post, a descendant of Henry Post 
(elder brother of JOTHAM POST) who, being a 
member of the Society of Friends, was able to 
procure for me (and worked indefatigably to do 
so) the Quaker Records that established the com- 
plete chain of descent of JOTHAM POST and his broth- 
ers from Lieutenant RICHARD PoST, of Southampton. 

Though this introduction begins with the assertion 
that this volume is confined exclusively to a history 
of JOTHAM Post's descendants, I have made a point 
of inserting all information in regard to other 
branches which came to me in the course of my work. 
There is information, though limited, about the 
Posts who came from Holland to New Amsterdam, 
and many more data about STEPHEN PoST who came 
to Massachusetts in 1634 from England. 

The labor of years is finished, and this volume is 
dedicated to the family with the hope that each mem- 
ber will continue his personal records on the blank 
pages provided for the purpose. 

Marie Caroline de Trobriand Post. 



SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 



Records in family Bibles and old diaries. 

Old deeds filed at Riverhead, L. I. 

The History of Southampton, by George R. 
Howell. 

Thompson's History of Long Island. 

The Books (four volumes) of the Records of the 
town of Southampton (printed at Sag Harbor, L. I., 
by John H. Hunt). 

Book I. "Including all the writings in the Town 
Clerk's office from 1639 to 1660; transcribed with 
notes and an introduction by Wm. S. Pelletreau, and 
compiled by the undersigned Committee, chosen at 
Town meeting April ist, 1873, and published at the 
expense of the -Town, by its authority. 

Henry P. Hedges, 
W. S. Pelletreau, ■ 
Edward H. Foster. 

Book II. Same as Book I. . 

Book III. Same as books I and II. 

Book IV. Including Records from 1807 to 1873 
and printed under the supervision of WILLIAM J. 
Post, Clerk of the Town, in compliance with a reso- 
lution passed April 4th, 1896. 



SOURCES OF INFORMATION. XI 

Biographical annals of the Civil Government of 
the United States, by Charles Lanman, page 342. 
(In the Congressional Library at Washington.) 

"Memorial History of the City of New York," by 
James Grant Wilson. 

"Marriage Bonds" from Albany, vol. I, p. 627 and 
vol. 7, p. 114, New York State Library. 

"History of New York City," by Valentine. 

"Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the Ameri- 
can Revolution," by Lorenzo Sabine. 

History of Westchester County (Bolton's), vol. II 
(Yonkers). 

Holland Documents. 

Riker's History of Harlem. 

Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of 
New York. 

Genealogical History of New York. 

Records of the "Friends at Westbury." 

Pratt's History of Cambridge, Mass. (At Long 
Island Historical Society.) 

Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New Eng- 
land. 

New England Historical and Genealogical Regis- 
ter. 

Mrs. Martha J. Lamb's "History of New York 
City." 

The Early Settlers of King's County, by Tunis G. 
Bergen. 

Documentary History of New York. 

Liber 3, deeds. State House, Trenton, New Jersey. 



Xll SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 

Mary Powell Bunker's "Long Island Genealo- 
gies." 

"Early Long Island," by Martha Bockee Flint. 

Berry's "Kent." 

Census of Southampton and Hempstead in the 
Archives at Albany, N. Y. 

Town Records of North and South Hempstead. 

History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, 
by Benjamin W. Dwight, vol. II, p. 710. 

"An Old Family, or the Setons of Scotland," by 
Monsignor Seton. 

"History of the 22d Regiment, N G. S. N. Y.," by 
Col. George W. Wingate. 

Genealogical and Historic Records in Germany, 
Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Hesse, Prussia, Ham- 
burg, Bremen, Lubech, Alsace, Holland and 
England. 



THE POST FAMILY. 

Researches Concerning the Post Family in 
Europe from Various Sources. 

The Post family is one of the oldest families, of 
which we have any authentic records. 

It is mentioned as early as 980 A. D., when Nettel- 
burg, which later became known as Schaumburg, 
was besieged and taken by a Von Palingsleben, who 
became founder of the great and important family, 
the Counts Von Schaumburg. He assumed the Net- 
telburg arms: three thistles, while the Von Palings- 
leben arms were assumed by the "Herren VON PoST/' 
who had taken active and prominent part in the at- 
tack on Nettelburg. For the above, and following 
data, see : 

Pfefriger, II., 761 ; Ganke, I., 1695, 1696. 
Zeden, 28, 1788; Swea Rikes Matrikel, I., 
546. 

Megerle von Muhlfeld Erg. Bel. 88. 
Wenck, Hessische Landesgeschichte, III., 
242. 

Freih. von der Knesebeck, 229; Von Ledebur 
II., 220; Gneal. Taschenbuch der Freih. 
Hauser, 1854, 384-6; 1861, xvi; 1864, 59^; 



2 Post Family. 

Harenberg, Hist, diplom. Gandersh. Rab. 33, 
11; V. Mending, I. 445, 446; Knesche, II., 
346; 347; V. Hefner, Han. Adel. Tab. 25. 

Adolph Post, 

a "Ritter" (knight), was a member of the "Reichs- 
tag" of Minden in 1030, and 

LuDwiG Post and Helnrich Post "^ 

appeared in 1273 as witnesses to a deed by which sev- 
eral mansions belonging to the Counts Gerhardt and 
Johann of Holstein and Schaumburg were sold to 
the Cloister or Abbey Marienbode near Hildesheim. 
This Heinrich was progenitor of a prominent fam- 
ily orthis surname, of which we shall have occasion 
to refer only to the Goossen branch. Before we give 
the history of that branch, it might be of interest to 
follow the development of the other branches. 
Heinrich Post's grandson, Walther Post, had, in 
1399, land granted to him in Braunschweig, and 
from him descended 

General Herman Lothar, Freiherr Von Post, 

who was of Bosfeld, Emsink and Bockholt, and mar- 
ried the only daughter of Johann von Herdings and 
Anna von Hoen. He died in 1674 on the field of 
battle near Ensiskerin, Elsass, and in the Munster of 
Strassburg can be found a magnificent monument to 
his memory. His youngest son, 



Post Family. 3 

William Moritz Von Post, 

followed as Hessische Hofmarshall, etc., the Prin- 
cess Leonore von Hessen, who afterward became 
Queen of Sweden, to Stockholm, and was breveted 
Colonel, in 1617. in the battle of Lansskrona. He 
was founder of the Swedish line, while the Danish 
line descends from one WOLTERUS DICTUS POST, with 
armory: Azure, a lion rampant argent, and de- 
scended also from the Schaumburg house, in 1337. 
Holsteinske Documenter, Lex. over Ade- 
lige Familier. 

The eldest son of WILLIAM MORITZ VON POST, 

George Arnold von Post, 

"Herr zu Lude and Emsink, K. K. Danish Rittmeis- 
ter, resided at Gloustrup, Jylland, Danemark, and 
dying, in 1709, left son 

I WARD VON Post, 

of Lude, who left two sons, 

I. Major Peter Lasson von Post, 
of Broksoe, near Nestved, 
and 
Freiherr Ignaz Philip, 
of Lude and Oldendorf, who married Wilhelmina, 
Countess von Zedtwitz, who died in 1857. He died 
1821, leaving son 



4 Post Family. 

Col. Freiherr Joseph von Post, 
born in 1803, of Oldendorf and Kurhessen, who, in 
1 83 1, married Marie, Countess von Hardegg, born 
in 1802, and with four daughters had a son, 

Freiherr Maximilian von Post, 
born in 1835. 

I. Goossen Post,* 

who is mentioned, in 1376, as one of the "anzienl- 
ijkste Arnhemsche burgers," was a descendant of 
Heinrich Post, who, in 1273, appears as a witness 
to a deed, as referred to on previous page. 

Arnhem is in that part of Netherland that is called 
Gelderland. He had wife, Jantje Van Zul, a daugh- 
ter of Peter Van Zul and Jane Rapalje, having issue: 

Hist. Gen. de Rapalje, II., 63. 

^ I. Peter, of whom presently, 
2. George, 

* GOOSEN POST belonged to the most prominent citizens of 
.'\rnlieim. With the consent of the latter, mayor, aldermen and 
counsellors of the above city, resolved on Friday after St. Jacob's 
Day. 1376: "That outside of the walls of the city (Arnheini) and 
as far as the jurisdiction of the city extends, nobody should hence- 
forth be allowed to erect houses or small farms." The document 
is signed by: 

Reinout Gijsbertsen. Hendrik van Renevy'k. 

Godert van der W^erve. Kerstien Nedunck. 

Wouter van der Lijirden. VVouter Kivit. 

Johan van Giesen. Johan van Heme. 

Albert van Giese. Engelbert Ryckens. 

Diderick ven Have. Evert van Appeltere. 

Wouter van Duren, Florken Zegers. 

Henrick Becker. Evert van Blerssem. 

Hendrick van Elden. Johan Pott. 

GOOSSEN POST and Arnt van Meynersivijck. From 
"Rietstap Heraldicke Bibliotheek III., p. 6." (The Hague. 1881.? 



Post Family. 5 

II. Peter Post 
had land in 1399 in or near Elspet, and appears to 
have married Annatie Suydam, daughter of George 
Suydam and Else Meyers, of ZwoUe (SwoUe), hav- 
ing issue: 

Jean le Carpentier Coll. 

1. Peter Arnold, 

2. George, 

3- Jan. 

Of these, it is said, that George emigrated to 
England, settling down near Sandwich, Kent, about 
1473, from where he went to Ulcomb, Co. Kent, be- 
coming the progenitor of that branch of the family. 
(His will, dated 1502, is in the archives of Canter- 
bury.) See Appendix A. 

Ibid Chartres Particulieres. 

The grandnephew of this GEORGE PoST, Pax- 
WELL/* "of Gudenarde, and Leyden," Holland, emi- 
grated to Kent, also, marrying in the Dutch Church, 
London, and his brother, Jan, had a daughter, Sarah, 
who married in Maidstone, Kent, in 1607, to which 
place the Ulcomb branch of the family had removed 
shortly before. GEORGE POST, of Elspet andUlcomb, 
Co. Kent, had with wife, Eleanor, son Thomas, who 
had several sons, of which WILLIAM POST was of 
Maidstone, Kent. 

* The direct ancestor of Richard, of Southampton. 



6 Post Family. 

III. Peter Arnold van der Poest, 
born in 1500, married September 13, 1539, Mar- 
ragrietje Bogert, daughter of Jan Bogert, and had 
issue: 

Ex. Archiv. S. Auberti. 

I. Jan, who resided in Oudenarde, where he 
married Sarah Van Tassell, and had daughter 
Sarah, who married in Maidstone, Kent, Sep- 
tember 15, 1607, Isaac Clerk. 

Maidstone Rec. Dutch Church, Austin 
Friars, London. 

V 2. PanWELL, of whom presently, 

IV. Panwel van der Poest 

married, February 7, 1571, Susannah, daughter of 
Abraham Van Gelder, and had issue: 

Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London. 

1. Abraham, bapt. Oct. 6, 1573, in London, 

2. Sarah, bapt. Oct. 6, 1573, in London. 

3. Susanna, bapt. Jan. 18, 1578, in London, 

4. Jan, bapt. Nov. 5, 1579, of whom presently, 

5. Arthur, bapt. Aug. 26, 1580, married Bennet 

Lambe in Maidstone, Kent. 

Of these, Jan van der Poest, of Oudenarde, mar- 
ried, June 18, 1594, Tanneken van Mulken, of 
Smerghen. 2d, as Jan Post, of Leyden, June 13, 



Post Family. 7 

1596, Elizabeth de Cock, of Lokeren, and, 3d, Oct. 
22, 1598, Sarah de Coninck, "of London," in the 
Dutch Church, Austin Friars, having issue: 

1. Joannes, bapt. Sept. 16, 1599, 

2. David, bapt. Feb. 17, 1601, as son of J. de 
Post, 

3. Joannes, bapt. Aug. 22, 1624, 

4. Samuel, bapt. July 30, 1626, 

5. Elizabeth, bapt. Nov. 12, 1629. 

Panwell van DER Poest was a "bezitter van 
ijzersmelterijen (iron founder) in Oudenarde," and 
had (with his first wife) "uit zijn eerste huwelijk, 
dat met Tanneken van Haersolte, een zoon (one son) , 
Jan Ludolf," who, evidently died young. 

V. Arthur Post,* 

born and baptized August 26, 1580, married, Feb- 
ruary 2, 1 6 14, in Maidstone, Kent, Bennet Lambe, 
daughter of Richard Lambe, and had issue: 

1. Richard, born Feb. 4, 1617, of whom pres- 
ently, 

2. Stephen, born Nov. 27, 1618, 

3. Panwell, born Sept. 3, 1619. 

Lambert Coll., ix, 43. 



* Arthur, calls himself Post like his ancestors, whilst his 

father. Panwell, and grandfather, Peter Arnold, were van 

der Poest. 



8 Post Family. 

Arthur Post, in a deed dated June 14, 1644, "be- 
ing of grete age," gives to "my cousin, Richard van 
Mulken, ten pounds within six months; my second 
son Stephen and his wife, Margaret, all my lands, 
tenements and hereditaments in Estling, formerly 
in the possession of my eldest son, Richard, being 
now of New England or some parts beyond the seas, 
Panwel, my youngest son, to have all my wearing 
apparel." 

Phillips Coll. Mss., in Mulken Gen. 
Mss., XXII, 4. 

The Richard Post, here referred to, I take to be 
identical with 

VI. Richard Post, 

the early settler of Southampton, L. I., who had a 
grant of land May, 1643, as no further records can 
be found, as to the above RICHARD POST, of Maid- 
stone, although both his brothers are mentioned as 
having left issue. 




GERMANY. 



Post Family. 



POST. 

Post, a noble family of Lower Saxony, especially 
from the bishopric of Paderborn; originally they 
came from the county of Schaumburg, and accord- 
ing to ancient printed and written documents it is 
shown that some members were already greatly 
esteemed in the times of Conrad Salico, the Roman 
Emperor, on account of their special reputed qual- 
ities. At least one of the family was already in olden 
times a celebrated knight; he attended the Imperial 
Diet in Minden, in 1030, together with Adolph von 
Palingsleben, Von Bardeleben, Von Busch, etc. He 
was named Adolph and all the VON POSTS derive 
their noble descent from him. He had a son, named 
Frederic, who was alive in 1026; he was in the 
service of a Count Schaumburg and left an only son. 
Only from the year 1272, when HENRY and LuDWIG 
Post were living, authentical reports can be given. 
These two went over to the city of Itzehoe in Danish 
Holstein together with Gerhard and Johann, Counts 
of Schaumburg, and there is yet a document of the 
year 1272 attached by all the seals of the above-men- 
tioned. According to that document, the Counts 
made a donation of some domains to the Abbot of 
Itzehoe. 



lO Post Fami/y. 

All the Posts in existence to-day are, however, de- 
rived from the above named Henry. He left as son 
and heir his oldest son, RICHARD, who was an Im- 
perial colonel and counselor, alive in 1363; he again 
was followed by Johann, who signs as a witness in 
1377, when Count Henry Sternberg and his son 
Johann sold the earldom of Sternberg with all its 
privileges to Otto, Count of Holstein-Schaumburg 
and his heirs. 

Johann Post married Mechtild, a daughter of 
Adolph von Busche; his son, Walther POST, was 
high-sheriff in Varenholtz; he was the first who re- 
ceived grant of lands by Duke Frederic of Braun- 
schweig and Luneburg in the year 1399; he mar- 
ried Agnes Von Wend, who formerly was a baroness 
Kratzenstein. Frederic von Post was a counsellor 
of the Elector of Cologne and of Count Schaum- 
burg; he had great quarrels with Philip, then Count 
of Spiegelberg, and the brothers of FREDERIC POST, 
above mentioned probably were Joachim-Werner, 
Johann and Clans Post. 

Werner, another son of Frederic Post, happily 
brought the above-named controversies to an end. 
He died in 1503. 

Stantius Von Post married Catharine Von 
Bahr, a daughter of Johann Bahr, counselor and 
captain in the service of Mansfield Statius, received 
confirmation of grant of the ancestral estates by 



Post Family. ii 

Albert, Duke of Brunswick, in 1484, and by Henry, 
Duke of Brunswick, in 1529. When he died, his sons 
made the following partition of the inherited estates: 

1. Joachim, the oldest son, received the estates 
and castle of Holtensen, half a mile distant from 
Hameln, hard by the frontier of Schaumburg; 
further the domain of Boden-Enger in the county 
of Schaumburg, and a farm and estate in the city of 
Rinteln. 

2. Werner received Oldendorfif. 

3. JOHAXX received Buckenburg. 

4. Nicholas obtained Luden in the bishopric of 

Paderborn, and Postholtz. 

From Joachim, above named, derive the branches 
of POST-HOLTENSEN and PosT-RiNTELN. He was 
a counselor at Brunswick-Luneburg and high- 
sherifif of Uslar in Schaumburg. He died in 1577. 

He founded a family vault in the church of Saint 
Nicholas in Rinteln for his descendants, and there 
is a document still in existence wherein the mayor 
and the aldermen of Rinteln affirm this foundation 
to the heirs of the POSTS. Among the signatures of 
this document can also be found an Adolph VOX 
PO.ST. 

Joachim had two sons, Johanx, senior, and 
Joachim ; they divided the estates anew. 

Johanx received Holtensen, and JOACHIM ob- 
tained Boden-Enger and the estates in Rinteln. 
JOHAXX was hereditary lord of Holtensen and Post- 



12 Post Family. 

holtz. He obtained confirmation of the estates and 
concessions by various Dukes of Brunswick; some of 
the estates, however, were disputed of him by his 
relatives . He was married twice : 

1. With Ilsa von Bardeleben, and 

2. With Anna von Haselhorst. 

His oldest son was JOHANN Dederik, who re- 
ceived confirmation of grant of the inherited estates 
by Duke Christian Ludwig, of Brunswick-Luneburg. 
Another son was Statius-Frederic Vox Post, 
counselor of Brunswick-Luneburg, high-sherifif, and 
governor of the Institute for Noblemen in St. 
Michael. He was born in 1607 and died in 1671. 
He had the following children: 

1. Agnes Elizabeth, born 1659. She was mar- 

ried to Ernst-Christian Von StafYhorst, prin- 
cipal master of the Hunt in Zell. She died 
November 5, 171 8. 

2. Christiax-Ludwig, born March 22, 1661, 
died December 30, 1707. 

3. August- Frederic, born 7 September, 1662, 
died 1663. 

Christiax-Ludwig was married to Dorothea- 
Elizabeth von Reden. They had the follow- 
ing children : 

1. Eleoxora-Elizabeth, born January 9, 1689. 

2. Frederic-Christian, died January 21, 1719. 

3. Werxer-Ernst, died 1700. 

4. August-Otto. 



Post Family. 13 

5. Sophia-Amalia, born June 28, 1698, died 
July 13, 1698. 

6. Elizabeth-Juliana, born September 30, 

1697, married February 14, 1726, to Henry 
von Grote, Royal Great Britain and Han- 
overian stateminister. 

7. Dederik-William-Christian, born Decem- 

ber 13, 1698, died September 3, 1700. 

8. Ludwig-Christiax, born August 27, 1700. 

9. Joachim-William, and 

10. George-William, born 1707. 

The branch of POST-LUDEX became extinct in 1672 
with Bernhard, a grandson of NICHOLAS, above 
named, and all the hereditary estates came legiti- 
mately to Christian-Ludwig. 

Joachim, junior, of the branch of PoST-RlNTE- 
LEN, left WILLIAM-MORITZ, a colonel in the service 
of Sweden. He married Catherina von Schilt and 
they had various children. 

The arms of the family of POST are: 
Azure, a lion rampant, argent, crowned or. 

Crest: A post, gules, before the post stands the 
lion of the field, crowned as above; the post is sur- 
mounted by three ostrich plumes, proper. 

From the German of "Zedler's Grosses 
Universal-Lexikon" (1741), vol. 
XXVni, pp. 1788 to 1790. 



I^. Post Family. 



POST. 

GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWEDEN, ALSACE. 

The Posts are noble, also are they barons. They 
belong to the Bohemian nobility, too, as per a dip- 
loma given to AUGUST Otto Von Post. Imperial 
and Royal Austrian Captain in the Army. 

The family comes originally from Lower-Saxony 
and Westphalia, namely from the province of 
Schaumburg. There is a tradition, but probably 
mythical, that the house was existing already in 980. 
At that time (it is claimed) there was a fortress by 
the name of Nettelberg (later called Schaumburg). 
The inhabitants had rioted against Emperor and 
Empire, and therefore the fortified place was forci- 
bly taken by storm by a certain nobleman, named 
Von Palingsleben. The victor took possession of the 
castle as the owner, who had heretofore lived there 
lost his life during the siege. It is claimed also 
that this conqueror became the ancestor of the Counts 
of Schaumburg. He took up the Arms of Nettel- 
berg, consisting of three nettle leaves, and the fort- 
ress henceforth was called Schaumburg. He grant- 
ed his own Arms, heretofore adopted by him, to the 
Post family, members of which, at the siege and 
capture of Nettelberg had assisted and prominently 
distinguished themselves. 



Post Family. 15 

Adolph Post, Knight, was at the Reichstag in 
Minden, in 1030; LUDWIG and Heinrich POST ap- 
pear documentary in 1273, namely as witnesses in a 
contract, wherein Counts Gerhard and Johann von 
Holstein and Schaumburg sell some estates to the 
cloister Marienrode near Hildesheim. The uninter- 
rupted descendance commences with HeinriCH 
above named. His grandson was a certain "Wal- 
THER.". He came to the land of Brunswick in the 
XIV century, and continued the branch; the oldest 
charter being dated "Grubenhagen, 1399." 

It is claimed that the ancestor of all the actually 
living Baron Posts was in the XXth generation. 

Herman Lothar Baron Post, Lord of Bosfeld, 
Emsinck and Bockholt, Imperial Royal Austrian and 
also Spanish Colonel, further a General in the serv- 
ice of Munster as also Upper-Sherifif of Trent. He 
was married to the only daughter of Johann Von 
Herding and Anna Von Hoen. He died in 1674 in 
the camp at Ensisheim in Alsace. A most magnifi- 
cent monument is erected to him in the Minster in 
Strassburg, Alsace. His younger son, WILLIAM 
MORITZ, was a Court Chamberlain at the Court of 
Princess Leonore, of Hessen, who later on became 
Queen of Sweden. He accompanied her to Stock- 
holm, entered the Swedish service and was killed in 
the battle of Landskrona, in 1617. (There is evi- 



1 6 Post Family. 

dently an error of misprint in the dates, as it is impos- 
sible that the father was killed in 1674 and the son 
in 1617. Translator.) He was the founder of the 
Swedish Branch. His oldest son, GEORGE ARNOLD, 
died in 1709. He was Lord of Lude and Emsinck 
a Royal Danish Captain of Horse. He continued 
the branch and his successor was Erich Isvard 
Post, Lord of Lude. His grandson was Baron 
Ignatz Philip von Post, Lord of Lude and Olden- 
dorf, proprietor of the estates-in-fee in Hanover and 
Waldeck. He died anno 1821. He was married to 
Wilhelmina Countess Zedtwitz of the house of 
Schonbach. She died 1857. They had: 

Baron Joseph, born 1803, Lord of the Estates-in- 
Fee Oldendorf in the Electorate of Hessen ; also 
proprietor of the formerly independent estate of 
Ober-Puttgau in Lower-Styria, Imperial and Royal 
Colonel in the Austrian army. He married, in 1831, 
Mary, Countess Hartegg, born 1802. They again 
had five daughters and one son: 

Baron Maximilian, born 1835. 

The oldest of the four daughters, 

Mary, married, in 1862, Julius, Count of Attems, 
Lord of Pragerhof in Lower Styria, Imperial and 
Roval First Lieutenant in the Austrian armv- 



Post Family. ij 

Bibliography. Compare the following sources: 
Pfeffinger, vol. ii, p. 761. 
Ganhe, vol. i, pp. 1595-96. 
Zedler, vol. 28, p. 1788. 
Svea Rikes Matrik, vol. i, pp. 546-7. 
Megerle von Muhlfeld, supplement p. 

88. 
Wenck, Hessische Landes-Geschichte, 

vol. III. Documents p. 242. 
Freiherr von der Knesebeck, p. 229. 
Freiherr von Ledebur, vol. 2, p. 220. 
Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Frei- 

herrlichen. 

Hauser, 1854, pp. 384-386. 
1861, XVI. 
1864, P- 596. 

Harenberg, Hist. Dipl. Gandersheim 
Table 33, No. 1 1. 

Von IVIeding, vol. i, pp. 445-446. 

Wappenbuch des Konigreichs Hann- 
over C 62, p. 12. 

Kneschke Adels-Lexikon. 

Von Hafner, Hannoverscher Adel pi. 25. 

Taken from "Kneschke Adels-Lexikon, 
vol. Vn, pp. 226-227, 1867. 



1 8 Post Family. 

POST. 

HANOVER. 

The family is a very ancient one from Calenberg. 
The family appears documentary already since 1272. 
They are mentioned by Knesebeck and Grothe, but 
recent genealogical works do not enumerate them 
anymore. 

Arms: Azure, a lion, rampant, argent crowned. 

Crest: The lion of the field standing before a post, 
azure, surmounted by ostrich plumes, proper. 
Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 

Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Hannover." 
(1857) page 20, plate 23. 




HANOVER -PRUSSIA-HAMBURG 
BREMEN- LUBECK. 



Post Family. 19 

POST. 

PRUSSIA. 

An old noble family from Lower Saxony and 
Westphalia actually having estates in Schaumburg, 
bishopric of Munster and Luneburg. 

Arms: Azure, a lion rampant, argent, crowned. 

Crest: The lion of the field, standing before a post 
or pillar, azure, surmounted by ostrich plumes, 
proper. 

Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 

Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Preussen." 
(1878) page 305, plate 358. 



20 Post Family. 

POST. 

HAMBURG, BREMEN, LUBECK. 

Nobility of Hanover, very ancient, appears docu- 
mentary, 1272. 

Arms: In azure a lion argent, crowned. 

Crest: The lion standing before a blue post or pil- 
lar, surmounted by three ostrich plumes. 
Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 
There was a VON POST actually living in Bremen 
in 1869. 

Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Hamburg, 
Bremen und Lubeck." (1870) page 
17, plate 16. 




Pll.-.t. 

HESSE. 



Post Family. 21 

POST. 

HESSE. 

The Posts belong to the Knightage of Schaum- 
burg. 

Armes: Azure, a lion, rampant, argent. (Note. 
The lion is not crowned.) 

Crest: A post or column, surmounted by ostrich 
plumes, proper, the lion standing before the post. 
Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 

See this family also under "Nobility of 
Prussia." 

Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Hessen." 
(1859) page 22, plate 23. 



22 Post Family. 

POST. 

DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN. 

From "Lexicon of Noble Families in Denmark 
and Norway, vol. ii, page 85, published probably 
end of XVIII century. 

This is originally a family of Schaumburg, where- 
of descendants appear variously in Holstein docu- 
ments of the XI. and XII. centuries. On a document 
of 1337 we meet a WOLTERUS POST (Walder) 
named POST. 

Arms: Azure, a lion at dexter, rampant, argent, 
armed and tongued gules. 

Crest: The lion of the field upon a casket, stand- 
ing before a post or pillar, gules, crowned or, sur- 
mounted by three peacock feathers, proper. 

Compare plate XIV, No. 81. 

In Denmark we meet with a captain (of horse) 
George Arnold Von Post. He owned, in the 
XVII. century, Glomstrup, in Zutland. His grand- 
son was Major Peter Lasson Von Post, who owned 
the estate Broksoe near Restved." — From the Danish. 





DEN MARK- NORWAY- SWEDEN 



Post Family. 23 

VON POST. 

SWEDEN. 

In the year 1890 there was actually alive in 
Sweden, an officer in the army by the name of VON 
Post — Christian name not given. The family is of 
German origin, was entered into Swedish nobility in 
1664 by King Charles XI of Sweden, and again 
proved noble descent in 1809. 

From Fahlbeck "Sveriges Adel," Lund, 
1898, p. 70. (Nobility in Sweden.) 



24 Post Family. 

POST. 

AUSTRIAN-SILESIA. 

Bohemian Baronetage of 1739 for AUGUST OTTO 
Vox Post, Captain in the Imperial Royal Army. 

The above-named descended originally from an 
old noble family of Lower Saxony and Westphalia. 
He was, from 1744 to 1750, in the service of the 
Prince-Bishop of Breslau as burgrave and castellan 
of the palace and estate of Johannisberg. 

Arms: Azure, a crowned lion, argent turned dex- 
ter. 

Crest:* Upon a torse, azure, argent, the lion of the 
field standing before a shaft or post, azure, the post 
is topped by a bunch of peacock plumes, proper. 

Lambrequins: Azure, argent. 

From Blazek, Der Adelvin Oester- 
reichisch Schlesien (Siebmacher IV) 
Nurnberg, 1885. Text page 59, plate 
32- 



* There is a discrepancy between the illustration and the text 
—one descnbmg the lion of the crest on a torse (wreath) while the 
illnstration has a crown. 




Posi:. 



AUSTRIAN— SILESIA 




^ 

V 



r y.-r 










Post Family. 25 

POST. 

HOLLAND. 

I. Post of Amsterdam. 

Arms: Azure, a chief argent, charged by a 
post-horn, sable, belt gules, buckles or, 

II. Post of Lieden. 

Arms: Argent, a cross sable, accosted in chief 
by two bezants, sable. 

III. Post of Holland generally, two families. 

1. Arms: Azure, three gudgeons argent 

put in pale (2, i ) . 

Crest: A gudgeon, put in pale, head 
downwards. 

2. Arms: Azure, a chevron or, accosted by 

three gudgeons, natant, argent, two 
in chief, one in point. 

IV. Post of Utrecht. 

Arms: Azure, two pitch-forks argent, handles 
sable, put in saltire, accompanied by three 
swans, argent, two at the flanks, one in point. 

V. Ten Post, Groningen. 

Arms: Argent a post-horn, gules, buckles and 
horn belt or, tied azure. 

Rietstap, Armurial General, II, 473. 



26 Post Family. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

POST FAMILY OF HOLLAND. 

Elizabeth Mary Post was born in 1735. 

(This seems to be a mistake; compare below. I 
think it should read 1755. Translator.) 

In 1788 appeared by her, but anonymously, an 
exceedingly clever work under the title: "Het 
Land," (the country) in the form of letters, with an 
introduction greatly in her favor, by A. van den Berg, 
a minister in Arnhem. This story went through four 
editions. A second work "Voor Eenzamen" (For 
Solitaries) was soon after published. In this book 
she gave her real name and also divulged the fact 
that she was the author of "Het Land." Then fol- 
lowed "Reinhart, of Natuur en Godsdienst" (Rein- 
hart, or Nature and Religion) in three parts, plates 
and portrait, Amsterdam, 1793, written in a simple, 
and yet beautiful style. 

Miss Post was already the favorite of the public 
when she published (Rotterdam, 1793) : "Mijne 
Kinderlijke Tranen" (My Childish Tears), wherein 
she mourned the demise of her mother, as she had 
mourned the death of her father in her "Vor Eenza- 
men." 



Post Family. 27 

In 1794 she married Mr. Overdorp, a clergyman 
of Nordwijk. At that occasion was published her 
"Gezangen der Liefde" (Songs of Love), Gron- 
ingen, 1794. Then followed: Gezelschap en Een- 
zamheid" (Society and Solitariness), Groningen; 
"Het waar genot der Lebens" (The real Delight of 
Life), in letter-form with plates. (Amsterdam, 
1796.) 

G. W. C. Starke "Tafereelen nit het huiselijk 
leven," (Pictures from Domestic Life), translated 
from the High-German, Amsterdam, 1804, 2 parts; 
"Don Carlos, crown prince of Spain," translated 
from the High-German of Schiller (Amsterdam, 
royal 80) ; "Frederica Weisz and her daughters," 
from the High-German (Amsterdam, 1806), and 
finally: "Ontwaakte Zanglust" (Awakened Joy of 
Song). The Hague, 1807. 

In 1 8 10 were privately printed for her friends: 
"Ter gedachtenis van mijnen waardigen broeder H. 
H. Post, in 1809, to Demerara overleden." (In 
memory of my worthy brother, H. H. POST, deceased 
in Demerara in 1809.) 

This is the brother she has formerly depicted in 
her "Reinhard." 

She died in Epe in 1812, aged 57. 

Her portrait is engraved by Vinkeles. 



28 Post Family. 

G. Post, a minor poet in the beginning of the i8th 
century. He was yet alive in 1716. 

H. Post was a poet in the first half of the i8th cen- 
tury. He published in 1754: 

"Lofoffer, toegenvijd aan het Pan Batavum van 
A. van Halen." (Praise-Ofiferings, dedicated to the 
Pan Batavum of A. van Halen.) 

J AX Post was a son of Herman us Post and Eva- 
RIXA van RiemSDIJK, born in Tiel, August 28, 1778. 
He entered military service as a cadet of calvary in 
1796, was appointed second-lieutenant in 1803 and 
assigned to the Second Regiment of (Batavian) 
Hussars in 1805. When Holland became a part of 
the French Empire he entered the French service 
as a Captain of Lancers of the Guard, and did not 
return to his native country until 18 14. He was pro- 
moted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regiment of 
Hussars No. 6, and subsequently became Comman- 
der of the Regiment of Cuirassiers No. 3. In 1826 
he was promoted Major-General and charged with 
the inspection of heavy Cavalry, and after the Bel- 
gian Revolution he became Commander of the First 
Brigade of Cavalry. In 1836 he was put in non- 
activitity and pensioned three years later. 

Post, in various ranks, took part in the following 
expeditions: Northern Holland, 1806; Austria, 
1805; Prussia, r8o6; Zealand, 1809, ^"d Russia, 
18 1 2. He further was in Germany in the war of 



Post Family. 29 

1813, wounded in the battle of Leipsic; France 
1814; the Netherlands, 1815. 

He was decorated with the order of the Legion of 
Honor; the military order of William (3d class), 
and the Order of the Netherlandish Lion. 

General Post died in Utrecht, September 18, 
1841. 

H. Post, Engraver, lived in the first half of the 
XVHI century. He was the artist, who, amongst 
others, engraved the plate: 

"The Clergy and Government, compelled to leave 
Amsterdam in 1578." This picture was executed in 
1728. He was also the engraver of a "New Map of 
Gooiland," in copper. 

Jan Post, a painter on glass in Haarlem. He died 
there November 11, 1614. 

He was the father of FranS PosT and PlETER 
Post, who follow: 

Frans Post, son of Jan Post, above, brother of 
PlETER Post, who follows, was born towards 1620 in 
Haarlem. 

(There is another discrepancy, as the father died 
in 1614, the son naturally could not have been born 
in 1620. This is probably a misprint for 1600. 
Translator.) 



30 Post Family. 

He became acquainted, through his brother, with 
Prince Maurice, who, in 1637, took him along to 
the West Indies, where he sketched and painted 
many landscapes, and also the customs and manners 
of the inhabitants. He returned with the Prince in 
1644, and adorned, in 1668, the palace of Rijksdorp 
near Wassenaar with some paintings of the above 
subject. Another large picture by his brush was to 
be seen in Honsholredijk. 

In 1816 eighteen pictures by him were sold at an 
auction in Haarlem by Vincent van der Vinne; all 
of them West Indian landscapes. 

It is reliably stated that Frans Post was buried 
in the Great Church of Haarlem, February 17, 1680. 

His portrait is variously taken. There exists a 
drawing by Cornells Visscher; a painting of him by 
Frans Hals; an engraving by J. Suyderhof. 

PiETER Post, son of Jax Post, was a celebrated 
architect. He was born in Haarlem in 1608. 

He became a favorite of Count Johan Maurice, 
and accompanied him in his e.xpedition to Brazil, 
where he erected the churches and principal build- 
ings in Olinda, and also constructed the fortress and 
some houses in Maurits-stad (Fernambuco) . 

Returning to his native country he erected also 
various excellent edifices, for instance, the palace of 
Zwanenburg, near the ferry in Haarlem; the City- 




ARMS OF I'ETHR POST, IHE FAMOUS ARCHITECT OF 
HENRY OF NASSAU. 



Post Family. 3 1 

Hall of Maastricht (1659-63); the Public Stores 
(Scales) in Gouda; Castle Vredenburgh, in North 
Holland; Prince Maurice House in The Hague; 
Orange-Hall in the House in the Bush, The Hague, 
etc., etc. 

He was appointed architect and painter to his 
Highness Prince Frederic-Henry, whose funeral he 
depicted in 29 plates, Amsterdam, 1655. He wrote 
books on Architecture, published Leiden, 1715, and 
was also favorably known as a painter. 

His residence was at the Amsterdam Wharves in 
The Hague, where he must have died in or before 
1669, as his books, plates, prints, etc., were sold there 
on December 17, 1669. 

His daughter was married to Fredericus Ruysch. 

Tobias Post, navigating officer of Adriaan De 
Haese, Admiral of our fleet. 

He distinguished himself in the war with England 
in 1672, and when Haese was killed at a naval battle, 
his successor, Du Bois, promoted PoST Captain of 
the fleet. 

J. Post was an author. He published works in 
Amsterdam in 1734. 

P. Post wrote some poetical pieces, last half of 
the XVI n century. 

Sebastian Post, portraitist, born in Tiel in 1777. 
He gave drawing lessons in Nijmegen. 



32 Post Family. 

Margaretha Van den Post was the mother of 
the Bastards Filip and David, Counts of Burgundy, 
both later celebrated bishops of Utrecht. 

Johannes Robertus Post (Bran Post), por- 
trait painter, born April i, 1811, in The Hague. 
His master was C. Kruseman. PoST emigrated to 
Curacao, 1843, where, in 1848, he was yet a success- 
ful portraitist. 

Translated from the Dutch of "Von Der 
Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek der 
Nederlanden," vol. HI, pp. 130-131. 



(From the Latin, "Astor Lby., N. Y.") 
The following persons by the name of POST 
studied at the University of Leyden, Holland: 

From "Album Studiosorum Acad. Lugd. Batav., 
1575-1875, The Hague, 1875," or in English, "Al- 
bum of the Students of Leyden University, 1575- 
1875." 

Page 309 anno 1639. Bastiaen Post, aged 15, 

"Famulus." 

" 1416 " 1869. David Post, native of Am- 
sterdam, 25 years old, 
studied Theology. 

" 1071 " 1761. Janus Post, native of 

Rotterdam, aged 23, 
studied Medicine. 



Post Family. 33 

Page 1309 anno 1836. Jaxus Post, native of 

Vlardinghen, aged 18, 
studied Medicine. 

" 1 141 " 1782. Johannes Cornelius 

Post, born in Leyden, 
aged 14, studied ? 

" 1326 " 1 841. Petrus Post-Uiterweer, 

native of Schiedam, 
aged 19, studied Laws. 

" 1422 " 1 871. Petrus Abel Post-Uiter- 

WEER, native of Schie- 
dam, 29 years old, stud- 
ied Law. 

" 1 1 12 " 1773. Cornelis Van der Post, 

native of Leyden, aged 
30- 

" 1267 " 1825. Petrus Abraham Van 

DER HOEVEN PoST, born 
in Schiedam, 17 years 
old, studied Theology 
and Literature. 

Note. — This is arranged alphabetically by Chris- 
tian names, just as found in the above authority. 



34 P<J^i Family. 



Coat of Arms, black and white, 
OF 

JOHANN POST, Med. Doctor, 

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, 
He lived towards 1570. 



Arms: A rider, blowing a horn (Postilion) upon 
a tertre. 

Crest: A posthorn before three ostrich plumes. 

A'^. B. — The colors are unknown. 

From Siebmacher "Patrician Families," 
part I, p. 53, plate 74. 




l^o^t . 



ARMS OF DR JOHAN POST 
HEIDELBER& /570. 




EN GLAN D 



Post Family. 35 

POST. 

ENGLAND. 

George Post, son of Peter Post and Axxatie 
SUYDAM (see page 5) left Holland to settle in Eng- 
land, where his descendants are to this day. 

George Post settled near Sandwich, Kent, about 
1473, from whence he went to Ulcomb Co., Kent. 
His will, dated 1502, is in the archives of Canter- 
bury. 

(See Appendix A). 

It was not the direct descendants of George Post 
who came to New England in 1633-34, but those of 
his great-nephew Panwell. This nephew followed 
the example of his great-uncle and left Holland to 
settle in Kent (Maidstone). See page 5.) 

The Coat of Arms on opposite page is that of 
George Post's descendants. They bore arms : "Or, 
a fesse azure." Crest: "On a chapeau, azure, turned 
up ermine, a demi eagle, wings expanded, beaked, 
azure." 



36 Post Family. 



COATS OF ARMS and CRESTS. 
Armorial Bearings. 



Post Family. 37 

Armorial Bearings. 

In examining the various POST coats of arms, it 
is noticeable that those of Leiden, in Holland, vary 
in every respect from the others, keeping no single 
distinctive part of the original or German arms. All 
the others have the azure, or the ostrich feathers, or 
the play on the word POST with a post, or posthorn. 

The Arms of Hanover, Prussia, Hamburg, Bre- 
men and Lubeck are exactly like the original Ger- 
man, with the lions crowned on arms and crests, and 
the ostrich feathers on crest, but the color of the post 
on the crest is different, azure in the original. Gules 
(red) in the others. 

The Arms of Hesse, Denmark, Norway and 
Sweden, have the lions uncrowned, and the same dif- 
ference in the colors of the posts, Hesse being azure 
and the others gules, but Hesse retains the ostrich 
feathers, while Denmark, Norway and Sweden have 
adopted peacock feathers on the crest, and the post 
is crowned instead of the lion. 

In the arms of Holland are found the azure, but 
the play on the word post is shown in posthorn and 
postilions, instead of a column.* 

In England they kept the azure in the fesse of the 
shield. 

* Since writing the above I have ascertained that there is a 
species of fish called Pos in Dutch. Hence the presence of the 
Pos or fish on the Dutch coats of arms. Several of the Posts who 
first came to New Amsterdam spelled the name Pos. See page 46. 



38 Post Family. 

Whether Panwell Post, of Leiden, greatnephew 
of George Post (founder of the English branch), 
who also settled in England, carried his uncle's arms 
or those of the Leiden family, to which he was prob- 
ably entitled, does not appear from the records. 

None of these arms or crests, as far as can be as- 
certained, were ever carried by any of the POSTS who 
settled in America. 

These emigrants, the majority of whom fled from 
religious persecution, thought only of joining a 
colony where each man brought the simple worth of 
his individual work. All class distinctions were left 
behind. It is pretty nearly certain that the Richard, 
of Southampton, hereinafter referred to, never car- 
ried a crest. 

Many of RiCHARD POST'S descendants became 
Quakers, the tenets of whose faith inspire still greater 
dislike to aristocratic emblems. For five genera- 
tions the Posts lived in their new country satisfied 
with competency or wealth acquired in mercantile 
or agricultural pursuits, or occupying with credit 
official positions to which they were elected, unam- 
bitious of carrying armorial bearings. 

There is, therefore, no record of any arms having 
been carried by the family in America until the be- 
ginning of the 19th century. 



Post Family. 39 

About that time the descendants of JOTHAM POST, 
in New York, carried and placed upon certain pieces 
of family silver a coat of arms which has been gen- 
erally adopted by those of the name. (See frontis- 
piece) 

The origin of these armorial bearings is uncertain. 
They are identical, save in the colors of the lions, 
with the arms of the Poston family, of England, 
which are described in "Burke's General Armory," 
and also in ''Fairbank's Crests," (vol. i, 362), as: 
"Argent, on a fesse between three arches, gules, a lion 
passant or, inter two bezants." 

Crest: "A demi-lion or, supporting an arch gules." 

Whether the name Poston derived its origin from 
the Posts of Germany and Holland, we are unable 
to say. The family seems to be extinct, and searches 
in England throw no light upon the matter. 

From the striking similarity it is presumed that 
both are derived from the same source. 

It is probable that the arms, almost similar to the 
Postons, were not assumed, nearly one hundred years 
ago, by the POSTS of America without authority. 
What that authority was it is impossible to say after 
the lapse of so many years. For four generations 
they have been used and accepted by the New York 
branch of the POST family, and will be found upon 
all of their old family silver, books, etc., etc. 



40 Post Family. 

They are registered in the College of Heraldry, 
of New York, as : 

Arms: "Argent, on a fesse gules a lion passant be- 
tween two roundels of this first between three arches 
with columns of the second." 

Crest: "A demi lion p. p. r. tongued gules resting 
his sinister paw on an arch with colums gules." 

Motto: "In me mea spes omnis." 

(See frontispiece) . 



Post Family. 41 



HERALDIC TERMS USED IN CONNEC- 
TION WITH THE POST ARMS: 



Or. gold, indicated by hatched points f-'-^ 

Argent, silver, indicated by plain white | | 

Gules, red, indicated by vertical lines 

Azure, blue, indicated by horizontal lines. . . .^H 

Sable, black, indicated by lines in squares, ^^ 
horizontal and vertical M 

Proper or p. p. r. natural color. 

Dexter, right. Sinister, left. 

Fesse or fess, a strip placed horizontally across the 
middle of the shield. It takes up about a third of 
the shield. 

Chevron (cauterius) from its resemblance to the 
main rafters or principals of a roof. 

Saltire (sautoir) is known as the cross of St. An- 
drews ^ 

Cross, (croix, crux). In heraldry is usually the 
Greek cross, or that of equal arms — |— 



42 Post Family. 

Lion rampant. Lion standing as if climbing. 

Lion passant. Lion walking, passing. 

Roundel. If of metal is a simple disk. If "or" it 
is convex, half a globe. It is named especially from 
its color. "Or" (gold) a "bezant from a coin of that 
name in the East. Sable, "a pellet;" Argent, a 
"Plate;" Azure, a "Hurt;" Gules, a "Torteau." 
Although bezants, plates, hurts, torteaux, are given 
in early rolls of arms, their names do not always 
carry their color. They are blazoned as "roundels 
d'or, pelottes d'argent." 

The pellets often stand for the roundels. 
Chief. Upper third of the shield. 
Put in Pale. Upright in the middle line of shield. 
Put in Saltire. Put as the St. Andrews cross. . .)x( 
The above are Heraldic figures. 

Beasts, birds, fishes, etc., on shields are called 
Charges. When marked or placed on shields; 
"three arches" — or "three swans, etc., 2-1," it means 
r\vo in chief, on the upper third of the shield and one 

at the point Yj\ 

"Two in pale" would be one over the other and 
upright. 

"Two swans or other device in flank and one in 
point," means one on each side of the middle third 

of the shield and one at the point, thus : [T^ 



Post Family. 43 

The Shield is considered divided in three parts. 

The husband and wife's arms joined are called 
'impaled." 

Crests. 



Strictly speaking, the armorial bearings are con- 
fined to the contents of the shield; and heralds have 
never regarded the appendages as of the same im- 
portance. These include whatever is borne outside 
the shield, as the crest, badge, motto, supporters, 
helmet, etc. 

The crest was the ornament of the head-piece, and 
offered protection against a blow. In early rolls of 
arms it is not noticed. In early seals when it appears 
it is rarely heraldic. 

With the crest is usually combined some flowing 
drapery, known as panache, mantling or lambrequin, 



44 Post Family. 

Helmets. 

The helmet indicates the rank of the wearer. It 
is placed above the shield and beneath the crest. 
The sovereign and the royal family bear the helmet 
full faced with six bars, all of gold. 

Those of dukes or marquises are of gold with five 
steel bars. The lesser nobles have silver helmets 
borne in profile with gold ornaments and four silver 
bars. 

Those of baronets and knights are of steel, full 
faced and open. 

An Esquire's helmet is of steel represented in pro- 
file with visor closed. 



Post Faiuily. 45 

At the risk of much reiteration I have given on 
the preceding pages all the genealogical and biog- 
raphical information from European sources con- 
cerning the Post family, which I thought would 
prove of interest. It will be seen that it originated 
in Germany. From there it branched out into 
Sweden, Denmark, Bremen (where there are VON 
Posts to-day), Hamburg, Lubeck, Prussia, Hesse, 
Hanover, Alsace, Holland, England, and I believe 
into Switzerland. 

From Holland and England, POSTS came to New 
Amsterdam and Massachusetts, and the descendants 
of these early Dutch and English settlers have now 
carried the name into almost every part of the 
United States. 

The Richard Post, son of Arthur Post, men- 
tioned in his father's will as "my eldest son, Richard, 
being now of New England or some parts beyond 
the seas" (see page 8), was one of the first settlers 
(1640) of Southampton, known in its records as 
Lieut. Richard Post. It is his history, and that 
of his descendants, which concerns us the most, as 
he was the ancestor of JOTHAM POST, — but before 
proceeding with Richard's history it would be of 
interest to many to read the information procured 
concerning the other POST immigrants of those early 
times, from whom are descended so many of that 
name. 



46 Post Family. 

The Dutch Posts of New Amsterdaim. 

Bolton's "History of Westchester County," vol. II, 
(Yonkers). mentions several POSTS, among others, 
-Martlx Post, "Washington's faithful guide," and 
in his Appendix A is the genealogy of POSTS of Yon- 
kers "who came from Holland." 

Mrs. AJartha J. Lamb, in her history of New York 
City, states that "Governor Minuit organized the 
province as soon as he had obtained the title deed 
to Manhattan Island, May 6, 1626, . . . with an 
advisory council of five of the best men in the col- 
ony," one of whom was SiMOxX Dercksen Pos. (In 
the early records the names Pos and POST were both 
used also PoAST and PosTE.) 

In the Memorial History of New York, by James 
Grant Wilson, it is stated that SiMOX DiRKSOX Pos 
vv-as one of five councilors that came over from Hol- 
land with Governor Minuit on the ship Sea Mew. 

LUDOWICK Pos is mentioned in the N. Y. Gene- 
alogical and Historical Magazine, vol. V, p. ii;i. 
On page 180 is LuDOWiCK Post and AxiETjE. In 
vol. VIII, p. 26, is Anietje Post (April 7, 1672). 

Tunis G. Bergen, in his work, "The Early Settlers 
of Kings County, N. Y." (p. 228), and in the Docu- 
mentary History of N. Y. (pp. 659-660), says that 
William Post (or Pos) took the oath of allegiance 
in 1687 3S a native, and of New York. 



Post Family. 47 

Tunis G. Bergen gives some of his children, viz.: 

1. William, born July 20, 1680. 

2. AgneTJI, born February 7, 1683. 

3. Barbara, born February 21, 1689. 

4. Janetje, born April 17, 1698. 

This group appears in the census of Hemstead, 
Long Island, in 1698. They probably moved and 
settled there, just before Jeremiah and Richard 
Post (of the English POSTS) came to Hempstead 
from Southampton.* These Dutch POSTS left 
Hempstead and settled in New Jersey. WILLIAM'S 
will was administred in Perth Amboy in 1724. 

In a magazine article ("Our Home," Somerville, 
New Jersey, 1873, p. 462), the same writer says that 
Themis and William Post, ... of the vicinity of 
the Raritans in 1707, and JOHANNES PoST, of Mon- 
mouth County, were probably sons of William Post 
above mentioned. And in his "Early Settlers," p. 
228, he says that the first William was probably a 
son of Captain Adrain Post, an early immigrant, 
who finally settled in Bergen, New Jersey. 

In "Liber 3, deeds," in the State House, in Tren- 
ton, New Jersey, p. 5, is a record of the fact that 
Captain Adrian Post took the oath of allegiance 
as a citizen of Bergen, November 22, 1665. 

* Of Jeremiah and Richard we give the history later among the de- 
scendants of Lieutenant Rich.\rd Post. 



48 Post Family. 

Some records of the Dutch POSTS can be found in 
the records of the old Dutch church in the "Gene- 
alogical History of New York," at the Lenox Li- 
brary. The following names are from the list of 
church members, and their residences in 1686, kept 
by the Rev. Henricus Selyns, pastor of the Dutch 
Reformed Church. 

Meretje Cornelius h. v. van Elias Post, 
living Breede Weg (Broadway). 

Agnetje Bouen h. v. Ludowick Post, 
living Heeren Gracht (West Zide), (Broad Street, 
West Side). 

In Dutch records, the initials "h. v. van," means 

"Wife of." 

It was to New Jersey that most of the Dutch PoSTS 
of New Amsterdam seem to have removed, and from 
there to have sent branches back into New York State 
in the counties of Westchester and Warwick. Not 
only in Trenton are to be found their records, but 
also in Hackensack and Schraalenburg. Here in 
New Jersey, among others, is the name of GarriT 
Post. Later we find in Warwick County, New 
York, the following POSTS. 

Col. Garret Post, born in Warwick County, New 
York, died there March 12, 1825; married June 7, 
1782, Martinche Bertolf. Col. PoST was the son of 
Major Jacobus Post, a revolutionary soldier. 



Post Family. 49 

Col. Garret Post commanded the 30th Regiment 
of the 19th Brigade of Infantry, in the war of 1812 
(see p. 630 of Military papers of Gov. Daniel D. 
Tompkins, of New York, 1807-17, published 1898.) 

Col. Garret Posts's son, Peter Schuyler Post, 
of Florida, Orange County, New York, was born in 
Warwick County, New York, August 15, 1795,* and 
was a soldier in the war of 1812 and later Brigadier 
General of New York militia. 

The son of General Peter Schuyler Post was 
General Philip Sidney Post, whose brilliant record 
in the civil war is as follows: 

^General Philip Sidney Post, born in Florida, 
Orange County, New York, March 19, 1833, was 
graduated from Union College in 1855, and after- 
ward studied law and was admitted to the bar. 

He then traveled through the North-West and 
lived in Kansas, where he practised law and estab- 
lished a newspaper. At the opening of the Civil 
War he was chosen Second Lieutenant in the 59th 
Illinois infantry, and in 1862 became its Colonel. 
He was severely wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, 
and made his way, with much sufifering, to St. Louis. 

* Genera! Peter Schuyler Post died in Galesburg, III, September 
5, 1861. He married, June 21, 1820, Marv D. Coe, daughter of Hon. 
John D. Coe. 

t Appleton's Cyclopaedia America Biography, vol. V, p. 84. 



50 Post Family. 

Before fully recovering he joined his regiment in 
front of Corinth, Mississippi, and was assigned to 
command of a brigade. From May, 1862, to close 
of war, he was constantly at the front. In the Army 
of the Cumberland, as first organized, he com- 
manded the first brigade, first division of the 20th 
Army Corps, from its formation to its dissolution. 
He began the battle of Stone River, drove back the 
enemy several miles, and captured Leetown. 

During Atlanta campaign he was transferred 
to Wood's Division of the 4th Army Corps, and when 
that General was wounded at Lovejoy's Station, POST 
took charge of the division, and with it opposed the 
progress of the Confederates toward the North. On 
November 16, 1864, in a charge on Overton Hill, a 
grape shot crushed through his hip, making what for 
some time was supposed to be a mortal wound. On 
December 16, 1864, he was brevetted Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers. After the surrender at Ap- 
pomattox, he was appointed to the command of the 
western district of Texas, where there was then a con- 
centration of troops at the Mexican border. He re- 
mained till 1866, when the withdrawal of the French 
from Mexico removed all danger of military com- 
plications. 

In 1866 he was appointed U. S. Consul at Vienna, 
and in 1874 Consul-General. His official reports 
have been quoted as authority. In 1878 he tendered 



Posi Family. 51 

his resignation, which was not accepted until 1879. 
He then resided at Galesburg, 111., and in 1886 was 
elected to Congress as a Republican. 

Was Department Commander to G. A. R. 

General POST married, May 24, 1866, CORNELIA 
Almira Post, daughter of Hon. William Town- 
send Post, member of the Assembly; great-grand- 
daughter of Col. Garret Post. 

The children of General Philip Sidney Post are: 

Harrietts Helena Post. 

Philip Sidney Post, Jr. 

William Schuyler Post. 

John Coe Post. 

The name, Garret Post, is spelled in various ways 
in the Hackensack records published by the Holland 
Society, pp. 161, 198, 209, 214. It is given as GerriT^ 
Gerrid and Gerret. . In Governor Tompkins' pa- 
pers it is spelled Garrit Post. Appleton's Cyclo- 
poedia American Biography has it GARRET POST, so 
also has "American Ancestry," vol. IX, p. 40. 



52 Post Family. 

Posts from England. 

We have seen by a deed of ARTHUR POST, of 
Maidstone, Kent, drawn June 14, 1644, that he gives: 
. . . "my second son, STEPHEN, and his wife, MAR- 
GARET, all my lands, tenements and hereditaments 
in Estling, formerly in the possession of my eldest 
son, Richard, being now of New England or some 
parts beyond the seas." 

Now there were in New England (at the time the 
deed was drawn) Richard Post and a Stephen 
Post, whom it was natural to suppose were brothers, 
as they emigrated about the same time. The above 
extract, however, from ARTHUR POST'S deed or will, 
shows his son STEPHEN, RICHARD'S younger brother, 
was at home. 

According to a comparison of dates, Richard 
Post, born February 4, 1617, was twenty-seven years 
old when his father disinherited him in 1644, and his 
brother, STEPHEN, eighteen months younger. 

The STEPHEN Post of whom we are about to speak 
was in Cambridge (Newtown) in 1634, and was then 
father of a family, one at least of his children hav- 
ing been born in England. This Stephen, then, so 
much older than our Richard, must have been a 
cousin, or perhaps an uncle. It is natural to suppose 
they were nearly related. This STEPHEN is the pro- 
genitor of those generally called the Connecticut 
Posts, and we will give his history before beginning 
that of Richard, whose history and that of one 
branch of his descendants is the object of this work. 



Post Family. 53 

The Posts of Connecticut. 

Stephen Post. 

The following account of STEPHEN POST is from 
notes collected with great care by one of his descend- 
ants, the late Mr. WILLIAM A. POSTE (who kept the 
terminal e to his name), at one time Deputy Attor- 
ney-General of the State of New York.* 

"There are in the United States, both Connecticut 
Posts and Long Island PoSTS.i' The former are 
descendants from STEPHEN POST, of Saybrook; the 
latter have for their common progenitor RICHARD 
Post, who was at Southampton, Long Island, about 
1640. 

"It is the natural supposition that STEPHEN, of 
Saybrook, and RICHARD, of Southampton, were 
brothers, but there is no proof to be found in any 
known records that sustain this theory. There is a 
vague tradition that there were two or even three 
brothers of the name, who came from England to 
America at about the same time. STEPHEN POST'S 



* I am greatly indebted to the widow of Mr. PoSTE for kindly allow- 
ing me to copy all his notes. I print them as they were written by him, 
and am not responsible if there are any errors. I verified nothing by 
documentary research, as Mr. Poste had already done so, and my work 
lay in the history of Richard Post, and not of Stephen Post. 

M. C. P. 

t Mr. Poste seems to ignore the Posts descended from the Dutch 
Posts, of New Amsterdam. JM. C. P. 



54 Post Family. 

name appears for the first time in America in the list 
of freemen of Newtown, now Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1634.* He had certainly four children: 
John, born 1627; Catherine, Thomas and Abra- 
ham. 

"The family is of English origin pure and simple. 
The suggestions or surmises of German, Scotch, 
Dutch or Welsh descent are utterly unfounded and 
unwarranted by any facts whatever.''' 

"Among the Canterbury archives is recorded the 
will of George Post, of Ulcombe, Kent, who died 
in 1504. He had many desecndants, and some of 
them are in Kent^^^ to this day. The name is spelled 
in England both with and without a terminal "^". 
The writing of the name with the unnecessary letter 
finds some precedents in the old records. Such 
records were, however, engrossed at a time when 
words were written with a terminal "f", long since 
discarded. 

* From Pratt's History of Cambridge, Mass. "Post, Stephen, 
(otherwise Po.^st) owned house and twelve acres of land on south 
side of river, 1635. He removed with Hooker to Hartford, where he 
was constable, 1641. Some of the family moved down the river." 
(Quotes Hinman). 

t Again ]Mr. Poste was ignorant of the German origin of the family, 
as shown by the documents that introduce the work, the results of 
more recent investigation. 

tt An additional corroboration of Richard Post, being a near rela- 
tion of Stephen is that Stephen came from Kent, and the fellow 
colonists of Richard to Southampton were mostly Kentish men. At 
any rate, in Howell's History of Southampton, it says : 

■'That they were men of intelligence is seen in their free charter, 
their just laws, and liberal institutions. They secured in their patent, 
land tenure by gavelkind (Blackston, 24) which had from time im- 
memorial prevailed in the county of Kent, in England." 



Post Family. 55 

"Stephen Post was a member of the congrega- 
tion of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, of Chelms- 
ford, Essex. Hooker was a noted non-conformist 
minister. He was compelled by the persecution of 
the government to partake himself to Holland in 
1620-30. 

"Many of his people then came to this country. 
Soon after their arrival they sent word to him to 
come to them. With about two hundred of his 
former congregation, he came over in the 'Griffin,' 
and landed in Massachusetts September 4, 1633. It 
is not certain whether STEPHEN POST was of the first 
or second party, but probably of the latter. 

"For some reason or other, Mr. Hooker and his 
people migrated in a body, in 1635 or 1636, from 
Massachusetts Bay southwesterly to the Connecticut 
River. They founded the city of Hartford in 1636. 
Stephen Post was one of the original proprietors. 

"In 1649 he sold his land at Hartford to one 
Thomas Gridley, and removed to Saybrook, where 
he spent the remainder of his life until his death, 
August 16, 1659. 

"It is probable that all the children, except ABRA- 
HAM, the youngest, were born in England. The 
name of STEPHEN Post's wife is not known with cer- 
tainty. It is supposed that an entry in the Saybrook 
records relates to her, viz.: 'Ellenor Post de- 
parted this life November 13, 1670.' 



56 Post Family. 

"John and Thomas, sons of Stephen Post, were 
among the first settlers of Norwich, Connecticut. 
Abraham, the youngest son of Stephen, remained 
at Saybrook. CATHARINE, daughter of STEPHEN 
Post, was married to Alexander Chalker in Septem- 
ber, 1649.* 

"In May, 1680, ABRAHAM POST, son of STEPHEN, 
was appointed Lieutenant in command of the Say- 
brook fort. In 1685 he was deputy to the Assembly. 
He died in 1690. Little is known of his wife, save 
that her name was Mary. Abraham and Mary 
Post had eleven children, most of whom remained 
in Saybrook. STEPHEN, the eldest, removed to what 
is now the town of Hebron, Connecticut (to lands 
given to ABRAHAM POST by the will of the Indian 
Sachem Uncas), in the year 1707 or 1708. He had 
a numerous family. His descendants for a genera- 
tion more or less remained in the vicinity of Hebron. 
Oliver Post his grandson, removed in the early 
part of the century to Hinesburg, Vermont. Hence 
his sons emigrated westward^-OLlVER to Northern 
New York; STEPHEN and JOSEPH to Ohio, then to 
Indiana, and Iowa. Alson, the youngest, alone re- 
mained in Hinesburg." 

To the above records should be added the follow- 
ing: "John Post, eldest son of Stephen Post, 



* For an account of them see Miss Caulking's History of Norwich 
Also bavage s Genealogical Dictionary of New England. 



Post Family 57 

born in England in 1627, married March, 1652, Hes- *^ 
ter Hyde, daughter of William Hyde, of Norwich, 
Connecticut, who was cousin of Anne Hyde, wife of 
James H. of England when he was Duke of York, 
and mother of the Queens Mary and Anne. 

John Post settled in Saybrook, where four of his 
nine children were born. He moved to Norwich, 
Connecticut, in 1660, and was an active and influ- 
ential man in the town. His wife died at Norwich 
November 13, 1703, and he died there February 10, 
171 1, aged 83 years. 

For a full list of the descendants of JOHX POST and 
Hester Hyde, see"Hyde Genealogy," by Walworth,* 
pp. II, 12, 13, 56, 57, 58, 201, 203, 1033, 1039. 

Thomas Post, second son of Stephen Post, mar- 
ried first, Margaret Andrews, and second, Rebecca 
Bruen, of Norwich. 

* Reuben Hyde Walworth, published in 1864. 



58 Post Family. 



RICHARD POST, 



OF 



Southampton, Long Island. 



Post Family. 59 

Lieutenant Richard Post, 

OF Southampton, Long Island. 

We now come to the history of RICHARD PoST, of 
Southampton, and his descendants; the RICHARD 
Post disinherited by his father, ARTHUR POST, of 
Maidstone, Kent (see page 7). This ARTHUR, as 
has already been related, in a deed dated June 4, 
1644, "being of grete age," gives to "my cousin, 
Richard van Mulhen, ten pounds within six months; 
my second son STEPHEN, and his wife Margaret, all 
my lands, tenements and hereditaments in Estling, 
formerly in the possession of my eldest son, RICHARD, 
being now of New England or some parts beyond 
the seas, etc., etc." 

It has been impossible to trace RICHARD'S where- 
abouts before his arrival in Southampton. The old 
town records of Lynn were burned in 1863. There, 
perhaps, might have been found a clue to his history 
from the time of his arrival in Massachusetts until 
we pick up his record with that of the other settlers 
of Southampton in 1640. It is almost certain that 
Richard was nearly related to STEPHEN PosT, who 
was in Newtown (Cambridge) in 1634.* STEPHEN 
was among the non-conformists fleeing from persecu- 
tion in England. That one of the same name should 

* See Stephen Post, page 53. 



6o Post Family. 

come to Massachusetts about the same time, presumes 
they were of the same blood, and the fact that RICH- 
ARD was much younger than STEPHEN^ and was dis- 
inherited by his father, would lead to the probability 
that the younger man followed the elder, and being 
under his religious influence, wished to share his fate 
in the life "beyond the seas." 

When Stephen Post and others, migrating to 
Connecticut with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founded 
the town of Hartford, RICHARD POST evidently pre- 
ferred to join the band going to Southampton, and 
from that time, 1640 on, we have his complete his- 
tory. 

In 1640, Richard Post, called Lieutenant Rich- 
ard Post, came to Southampton, Long Island, from 
Lynn, Massachusetts. 

The names of the settlers who arrived during the 
first twelve months, were as follows: 

Daniel Howe, Christopher Foster, 

William Harker, Joseph Raynor, 

Thomas Goldsmith, Ellis Cook, 

John Oldfields, Abraham Pierson, 

Samuel Dayton, Edward Needham, 

Thomas Burnet, Samuel James, 

John Howell, John Gosman, 

Thomas Sayre, Benjamin Haynes, 

Edward Howell, John White, 

William Odell, William Payne, 



Post Family. 



6i 



Thomas Topping, 
John Woodruff, 
Henry Pierson, 
Richard Post, 
Job Sayre, 
George Wells, 
John Jessup, 
Josiah Howe, 
Obediah Rogers, 
John Fordham, 
John Lum, 
Samuel Osman, 
John Rose, 
James Herrick, 



John Bishop, 
Henry Walton, 
Allen Breed, 
Edmund ffarington, 
Isaac Willman, 
John Cooper, 
George Woods, 
John Jagger, 
Richard Smith, 
Thomas Hildreth, 
John Hampton, 
Joshua Barnes, 
John Jennings. 



Most of the names mentioned above will be found 
in the histories of Lynn and other places, in the 
vicinity of Boston. Many of the persons probably 
came to Boston with Governor Winthrop, some years 
before their removal to Long Island. They were 
generally of a superior class, and of greater intelli- 
gence than some who came subsequently to other 
towns, being both respectable in character and edu- 
cation. 

"Edward Howell was the owner of 500 acres at 
Lynn, and possessed a large estate here at his death, 
leaving a family whose posterity are very numerous 
at this day. The same may be said of Sayre, Halsey, 



62 Post Family. 

Cooper, Post, Rogers, White, Rose, Wells, Foster 
and Pierson." 

(Thompson's "History of Long Island," vol. I, p. 
327-328.) 

Among the first records of RICHARD POST is one in 
May, 1643, when he. receives an allotment of land in 
addition to what he had already received. 

His name appears often in the records of the early 
history of the settlement. 

The — of October, 1650, RICHARD POST was 
chosen Sergeant of the (trained) band. 

"Upon the sixth day of October, 1651, at the same 
court, was chosen for constable and marshal, RICH- 
ARD Post, who was sworne to his office the 9th of 
October, 165 1." 

October 6, 1657, "At the court of election it was 
voted and concluded by the maior part that RICHARD 
Post and John Howell should stand officers accord- 
ing as they were chosen by the souldiers." (RICH- 
ARD was chosen.) 



Post Family. 63 

RECORDS FROM THE BOOK OF TOWN ACCOUNTS: 

"May ye 2, 1657. Att a towne meeting, there be- 
ing divers aprehension what way or means was best 
to be taken for preservation of ye towne, it is con- 
cluded by the major voat of the towne yt 7 men 
namely, Capt. Topping, Mr. Gosmer, Mr. Fordham, 
Mr. Rainer, John Cooper sen, Thos. Sayre & Ser- 
geant Post should have the managing of the present 
afifaire of the towne concerning ye safety thereof, and 
yt all men did lay downe themselves in respect of 
their persons & estates, to bee disposed of by the said 
7 men in a way of righteousness, to attend any means 
that may in their judgment effect the said ends." 

At a towne meeting, November 25, 1659: 

"It is ordered by ye major voat that RICHARD 
Post and 1 1 others are to regulate the towne papers 
and writings, to keepe what in theire best judgment 
are to be kept and to cashiere those that are in their 
judgment unnecessary, and to order whatever in yt 
respect both for matter and manner may bee in theire 
discretion thought most convenient for the towne use. 
Alsoe to sett downe which of the lawes in the law 
book, from Hartford shal bee, and at all times, and 
in all cases to bee esteemed to beel our lawes, and this 
is to bee done by the sd 12 men or the major voat of 
them. And in case time and place bee appointed 
and some (through any impediment cannot come 



64 Post Family. 

that then the rest, (provided there be 7 at least) are 
to proceed and the major pt of those that doe attend 
the said business shall act & effect as if all that are 
nominated & appointed did consent. And allsoe it 
is ordered that if any of the said persons appeare not 
according to warneing, and have not such allegation 
as may bee to satisfaction of our magistrates they 
shall pay 2S. 6d. a peece per day to ye towne's use, 
more over if any other besides the fore mentioned 
persons please to come to see ye carriage of ye said 
business they have liberty soe to do and to give their 
advice. It is transcribed out of a paper wharein 
severall things or orders were written & to be re- 
corded, which paper is Intitled and dated as follow- 
eth. At a towne meeting November 25, 1659." 



"It is uncertain whether any patent was granted to 
this town (Southampton) previous to 1676, the same 
having been purchased and settled under a convey- 
a,nce from the agent of the Earl of Sterling; for 
which reason the inhabitants did not consider them- 
selves bound by the act of 1665, requiring the towns 
within the jurisdiction to procure patents for their 
lands. They found themselves mistaken, however, 
in the opinion of the Governor and Council, who 
(October 8, 1670) declared the title to their lands 
forfeited, unless they should apply for a patent 
within a limited period. The matter was deferred 
under various pretexts, till the recapture of New 



Post Family. 65 

York by the Dutch in 1673, when they despatched 
deputies to Connecticut requesting again to be taken 
under their jurisdiction, and to be furnished with 
assistance should the Dutch attempt their subjuga- 
tion. October 9, 1673, the court referred their appli- 
cation to a committee to do what might be considered 
for the mutual advantage of both parties. They were 
received, accordingly, together with the towns of 
Easthampton and Southhold, which were thereupon 
erected into a shire or county, in which a county court 
was established, judges, and other civil, as well as 
military officers appointed, and a force sent over for 
their protection. The Dutch used both persuasion 
and threats to bring them under subjection, in which 
they were unsuccessful. After the surrender of the 
province again to the English, in 1674, these towns 
were anxious to preserve their alliance with Con- 
necticut, and even appointed a committee to petition 
the King for that purpose. But Sir Edmund Andros 
having arrived, required said towns to submit to the 
government of His Royal Highness the Duke of 
York, which, as they declined to do, his Excellency 
on the i8th of November, 1674, peremptorily de- 
manded of them that the former overseers and con- 
stables should be restored to their offices, "Under the 
penalty of being declared rebels"; and he ordered 
the deputies who had signed a memorial to him on 
behalf of said towns, namely: John Mulford, John 



66 Post Family. 

Youngs, and John Howells, to appear and answer 
before the council, — "on the like penalty."* 

A patent of confirmation for their purchases was 
subsequently accepted by them, bearing date Novem- 
ber I, 1676, as follows: 

PATENT OF GOVERNOR EDMUND ANDROS, 1 676. 

"Edmund Andross Esq Seigneur of Sousmarey 
Lieut, and Governor Genii under his Royall High- 
ness James Duke of York and Albany &c., of all his 
Territory in America, to all to whom these presents 
shall come Sendeth Greeting Whereas there is a 
certaine towne in the East riding of Yorkshire upon 
Long Island commonly called and known by the 
name of Southampton, situate, lying and being on 
the south side of the said Island, towards ye main 
sea, having a certain tract of land thereunto belong- 
ing, The Eastward Bounds whereof extend to a cer- 
taine place or plaine called Wainscott where the 
bounds are settled betwixt theire neighbors of the 
Town of Eastampton and them: their Southern 
bounds being the sea and soe runsWestward to a place 
called Seatuck, where a stake was sett as their farth- 
est extent that way: Then crossing over the Island 
to the northward to Peaconic great river (not con- 
tradicting the Agreement made between there towne 
and the Town of Southold, after their tryall at the 

* Thompson's History of Long Island, Vol. I, p. 334. 



Post Family. 67 

court of Assizes) and soe to run Eastward along the 
north bounds to the Eastermost poynt of Hogg neck 
over against Shelter Island, Including all the necks 
of land and Islands within the aforesaid described 
lands and limits: Now for a confirmation unto the 
present freeholders Inhabitants of the said towne 
and precincts, Know yee that by virtue of his Majes- 
ties letters pattent and the Commission and authority 
unto mee given by his Royall Highness, I have rati- 
fied, confirmed and granted. And by these presents 
doe hereby ratify confirme and grant unto John 
Topping, Justice of the peace, Capt. John Howell, 
Thomas Halsey Senior, Joseph Rainer Constable, 
Edward Howell, John Jagger, John fifoster and 
fifrancis Sayre Overseers, Levt Joseph fifordham, 
Henry Pierson, John Cooper, Ellis Cook, Samuel 
Clarke, RICHARD POST, and John Jennings as pat- 
tentees for and on ye behalfe of themselves and their 
associates, the ffreeholders and Inhabitants of the 
said Towne their heires successors and assigns all 
the aforementioned tract of land with the necks and 
Islands within the said bounds set forth and de- 
scribed as aforesaid, with all rivers lakes waters 
hawking hunting and fowling and all Hereditaments 
thereunto belonging. To have and to hold all and 
singular their said lands hereditaments & premises 
with their and every of their Apurtenances and of 
every part and parcel thereof to the said patentees 
and their Associates, their heirs, successors and as- 
signs forever." 



68 Post Family. 

"The Tenure of the said land to be according to 
the custome of the Mannor of East Greenwich in the 
County of Kent in England, in free and common soc- 
cage and by fealty only, provided always notwith- 
standing that the extent of the bounds before recited 
no way prejudice or infringe the particular propriety 
of any person or persons who have right by patent 
or other lawfuU clayme to any part or parcell of the 
lands or tenements within the limitts aforesaid, only 
that all the lands and plantations within the said 
limitts or bounds shall have relation to the towne in 
Generall for the well government thereof, and if it 
shall so happen that any part or parcell of lands or 
tenements withine the limitts afore described bee not 
already purchased of the Indians it may be pur- 
chased as occasions (require) according to law. I 
do likewise confirme and Grant unto the said pat- 
entees, their heirs successors and assigns all the priv- 
ileges and immunities belonging to a town within 
this government, and that the place of their present 
habitation and abode shall continue and retaine the 
name of Southampton by which name and stile it 
shall be distinguished and knowne in all bargains 
and sales, deeds, records and writings, they the said 
patentees and their associates their heirs successors 
and assigns making Improvement on the said lands 
and conforming themselves according to law and 
yielding and paying therefor yearly and every yeare 
as an acknowledgement or quitt rent one fifatt lamb 



Post Family. 69 

unto such officer or officers there in authority as shall 
be empowered to receive the same." 

"Given under my hand and scale v^^ith the scale of 
the province in New Yorke, the first day of Novem- 
ber in the eight and twentieth year of his Majesties 
Reigne Annoque Domini one thousand six hundred 

seventy-six. 

E. Andros. 

"Examined by me and recorded, 

"Mathias Nicolls Seer." 



70 Post Family. 

Richard Post must have had some trouble with 
his hand in advancing years, either through accident 
or paralysis, for whereas the early deeds bear his full 
signature, the later ones are signed RICHARD x' POST. 

The later deeds are conveyances of property before 
his death to his sons, JOHN and JOSEPH POST, his 
daughter, MARTHA, wife of Benjamin Foster, and 
his grandson, Benjamin Foster, Jr. 

Deed dated April 17, 1688. 

The original homestead of RiCHARD POST was on 
the East side of Main Street, and owned in recent 
years by Capt. Charles Howells. His house was 
remodeled and the circle has returned to its begin- 
ning, for it is now owned by Henry Post, and the 
present buildings are known as the "Post Block." 

Richard Post died about 1689. 

He married Dorothy Johnson* and left issue: 

1. Martha Post, married to Benjamin Foster. 

2. Thomas Post. No record of marriage or 
issue : 

3. Joseph Post. A power of attorney given by 
him in 1675 shows that he had been engaged in busi- 
ness in Talbot County, Maryland. He returned 
from there, lived and died in Southampton, Novem- 

* There is no positive evidence of her name being Johnson. 



Post Family. 71 

ber 10, 1 72 1. Aged about 72. (For description of 
his grave, the first in the second burying ground, see 
Appendix B.) 

His name appears in the tax list of 1696. He mar- 
ried Sarah , but left no issue. His will, dated 

August 7, 1717, was probated August 12, 1723. 

4. John Post, who left, as by his will (for abstract 
of will see Appendix C) eight children, five daugh- 
ters and three sons. These sons were (Capt.) JOHN 
Post, Jeremiah Post and Richard Post H. 

Capt. John Post* was the progenitor of all the 
Posts at the East end of Long Island; (for these 
descendants see Charts A and B, Appendix D) those 
of Montrose and Honesdale, Pa. ; Palmyra and New- 
burgh, N. Y., and California. 

The homestead of John Post, bequeathed to his 
son (Capt.) John Post, was on the East side of 
Main Street, Southampton. The railroad station 
now stands on part of it. 

Jeremiah Post, second son of John Post, set- 
tled in Hempstead. He had left Southampton be- 
fore the census of 1698, as his name is not therein 
mentioned; neither is it mentioned in that of Hemp- 



*Capt. John Post's commission as ensign is in the possession of his 
descendant, Abram S. Post, of Quogue, L. I. 



72 Post Family. 

stead of 1698, where some POSTS of Dutch descent 
are recorded. (These were WILLIAM, BARBARA. 
Anietje,* etc. These Posts moved away and set- 
tled in New Jersey. William's will was adminis- 
tered in Perth Amboy in 1724.) 

Jeremiah's name begins to appear in the Hemp- 
stead records in 1700. 

The homestead of JEREMIAH POST, in Southamp- 
ton, was probably sold by him (on leaving South- 
ampton) to his brother, Capt. JOHN POST, who left 
it to his son JOSEPH POST, and from him to his son 
JEREMIAH II, who left it to his son SAMUEL PoST, 
who had an only daughter, ELIZABETH, who 
married Albert Reeves. They had a son, Samuel 
Post Reeves (lost at sea), and a daughter, ELIZA- 
BETH, who married Lemuel Wicks. They had no 
children, and she left all her property to her cousin 
on her father's side, Harriet, wife of Capt. Peter R. 
Rogers, and sister of Hon. James H. Pierson. 

*See page 46, about the Dutch Posts. 



Post Family. 73 

Richard Post II, youngest son of John Post, 
born about 1684, was a minor child at the time of his 
father's will, drawn in 1685. The census of South- 
ampton of 1698, gives the name of RICHARD as being 
there at that time, when he was about fourteen or 
fifteen years of age. In the same household were 
his mother, MARY, his sisters, Mary, Jr., Deborah, 
Sarah, Dorothy, Martha, and his brother, (Capt.) 
John Post. After that there is no record of Rich- 
ard in Southampton, and in 171 1 his name begins to 
appear in those of Hempstead as having inherited 
his brother Jeremiah's cattle "ear mark." He be- 
came a Quaker and was the grandfather of JOTHAM 
Post. 

The personal peculiarities of the family may be 
expressed by the Southampton saying: "There 
never was a POST that wasn't honest." 

It will be noticed that JEREMIAH and RiCHARD 
Post's arrival in Hempstead brought the English 
branch to settle where the Dutch POSTS had already 
been for some time, and thus probably began the 
confusion about their origins, continued later when 
Richard's grandson, Jotham, settled in New York. 

Richard had become a Quaker, and in the Quaker 
records we find records of him, of his sons, RICHARD 
Post. Jr. (Ill), Joseph Post, John Post, and his 
daughter, Phebe. 



74 Post Family. 

Also of his grandsons, the sons of RICHARD POST 
(hi), Henry, Richard ( IV) , Jotham, and others. 

This book aims at giving principally the his- 
tory of the descendants of JOTHAM POST, but a his- 
tory of the "Posts of Queens County," that is, of 
Richard Post (II), and his sons, will be interesting. 



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^t Post Family. 

The Posts in Queens County. 

In the records of the town of Hempstead, before 
the division (1784) into North and South Hemp- 
stead, we find the first record of the brothers JERE- 
MIAH and Richard Post, after they came there 
from Southampton. 

For more than two hundred years they and their 
descendants have dwelt in that part of old Queens 
that is now Nassau County. Here and there one 
could find the tradition of visits from their kinsfolk 
near Southampton; just as remembrance of visits 
of far-ofif cousins from Queens County has been told 
to this generation by one of the Southampton POSTS. 
Leaving tradition, we find in the town records of 
the year 1700: 

"Jeremiah Post his (cattle) eare marcke is one 
half peni on yt C, entered May ye 20, 1700." 

In a deed we read, "as witness owre hands and seles 
ye 9 of October and year 1703. 

"Jeremiah Post." 
Under date of 19 February 1704, 

"Hempstead in Queen's County on Nawsaw island 
in the Province of New York." . . . "The third part 
of a hundred acar Lot of Land Lying on ye north 
side of ye hills at ye head of ye beavill w't sd third 
part of hundred acars of Land my brother sold to 
Jeremiah Post," is ratified and confirmed. 



Post Family. jj 

Beavel or Bevvel hill is about two and a half miles 
west of Westbury Meeting-house; and this piece of 
land was owned by EDMUND POST, Senior, within 
the memory of those now living. It may well have 
been some of the first land bought by his great- 
great-uncle, Jeremiah. 

Cattle grazed in common on "the plains," as in- 
deed they did, not so long ago. But to the marks 
of ownership, which were kept by the town, we owe 
the first mention of RICHARD POST since his name 
was given in the census list in Suffolk County thirteen 
years before. 

"Richard Post his Ear-marke is the antient 
marke of his brother Jeremiah Post . . . , Re- 
corded the i6 day of the fourth month June 171 1, 

"by mee, 

"William Willis Clarke." 

This is the last time that the name JEREMIAH PoST 
appears in the town records, except a mark recorded 
in 1747. 

The Queens County address to the Howes, Octo- 
ber 21, 1776, has among the signers JEREMIAH PoST 
and JOHX POST. 

In the "Colonial Series of the Report of the New 
York State Historian, vol. I, p. 497." 



78 Post Family. 

"Captain Tredwell's Train Band Hempstead, 
September 17, 1715," in "list of train Souldiers." 

"Richard Post/' 

Richard Post, however, and his son, Richard, 
Junior, are mentioned several times in the Hemp- 
stead (town) records. Sometimes it is difficult to 
tell which is meant. 

"Richard Postt Juner his ear mark is a slitt in 
the near ear and two half peneys on the fore side of 
ear. 

"Entered November 5, 1723." 

Richard Post, Jr., was witness to a deed in 1728. 

Richard Post. Earmark entered 173 i. He was 
chosen one of the "Surveyors or Overseers of High 
Ways" in 1744, 1745 and 1747. In March, 1744-5, 
he requested "a highway Laid out." The names of 
Richard and John Post are signed to a paper con- 
cerning this road in 1745. 

In 1744, when RICHARD PoST, Jr., affixed his sig- 
nature as witness, the record adds that he affirmed. 
For they were now friends. (Quakers.) We find 
their names in old leather-bound manuscript vol- 
umes, one of the oldest having as its title page: 

"A 
book of Records of concerns belonging to friends of 
the Monthly Meeting at Westbury containing a 
Record of the affairs of friends in four parts began 
in the year 1730." 



Post Family. 79 

It was not strange that they should be moved by 
the rising wave of the new form of faith that had 
established itself in Westbury (1697) just before 
their coming, and that was later to become the pre- 
vailing form for that region. Though the lists of 
those admitted were not kept at that early date, it is 
certain that in June, 1727, RICHARD POST was a mem- 
ber of the Society of Friends; and in 1728 we find 
the names of both RICHARD PoST and RICHARD, Jr., 
appended to one of the documents signed at the 
meeting. 

There is an inference that the former chose a 
Quaker wife, and accepted her faith for that reason: 
for the rule was inexorable that marriage must not 
be allowed with one not also a Friend. 

In Mrs. Bunker's "Early Long Island Families," 
there is a note of a sale of land by RICHARD and 
Phebe Post in 1729. This land must then have 
been the dower of RICHARD'S wife; for otherwise it 
was not customary for her to sign the deed. 

In 1744, at the marriage of "Phebe PosT, daugh- 
ter of Richard Post, of Westbury, of Township of 
Hempstead," the first woman to sign the marriage 
certificate as witness was Phebe PoST. That place 
was usually given to the mother of the bride. 

The name of the place had been changed to West- 
bury from the unborrowed, descriptive name of 



8o Post Family. 

Wood-edge. It was too good to keep. One reads, 
"Also it is adjudged that a meeting shall be kept at 
the Woodedge." The present year (1903) is the 
two-hundredth since the quarterly meeting was first 
held at Woodedge. It is thought that RICHARD 
Post, the first who came to Queens County, had other 
sons besides RICHARD, namely: JOSEPH and JOHN. 
It is certain that he had a daughter, for we have the 
record of her marriage in "9th mo. 1744," Phebe 
Post, daughter of RICHARD PoST, Sr., of Westbury, 
to Joshua Powell, son of Thomas Powell, of Beth- 
page. (See Appendix F). 

Joseph's name is earlier mentioned, 1732. Also 
the next year in record of earmarks. 

Both Joseph and John were married before 1737 ; 
for the meeting then appointed a committee "to 
speak to Joseph and John Post about their going 
and marrying from amongst Friends." Two or 
three years later their condemnation was accepted, 
Joseph, also for "bearing arms." There is mention 
of John in the town records in 1745, when a road 
was laid out and carefully described. JOHN was 
disowned by Friends in 1760 for bearing arms. He 
had two daughters, Phebe, who married John 
Powell, of Flushing, and ABIGAIL, who married 
Henry Pearsall, son of Rowland Pearsall, of Oyster 
Bay, in 1780. Of those who witnessed this marriage 
certificate were two John Posts and Jacob Post. 



Post Family. 8l 

Lastly, in 1776, JOHN and JEREMIAH POST were 
found on the address to the Howes.* 

Richard Post, Junior, married first, Mary Willis, 
daughter of Henry Willis, in 1732. It was not till 
three years later that the Friends wrote, "ye 29th day 
of ye 8th mo. 1735, RICHARD PosT and Mary Post 
gave in each of them a paper condemnung their run- 
ning out from the Order of Friends, and without the 
consent and knowledge of their parents and being 
married by a Justice and Friends received them and 
ordered them to be recorded." 

In another volume is the record of their children, 
with the half-finished date that one wishes the clerk 
had filled in. 

"The Age of RICHARD POST Junr. and his Chil- 
dren, ye sd Richard Post was born ye Day of 
mo 17 

"Henry Post (ye son of ye sd Richard Post) 
was born the first Day of ye 8mo 1733. 

"Richard Post (ye Son of ye sd Richard Post) 
w^ born ye 17th Day of ye 5 mo 1735. 

"Mary Post (Daughter of Said Richard Post) 
was Born the 6th day of 12 mo in the year 1737-8. 

"JOTHAM Post (son of the aforesaid RICHARD 
Post) was Born the 14th Day of the 4 mo 1740." 

"Mary Post wife of Richard Post and daughter 

* Lord and Sir William Howe. 



82 Post Family. 

of Henry Willis died 13th day of 5 mo 1744 in unity 
with Friends." 

Richard Post, Junior, married second, Elizabeth 
Willis, daughter of William Willis. Their children 
were STEPHEN, Sarah, and perhaps others. Ste- 
phen removed to Nine Partners,* where we lose the 
trace when "he Rather chose" to leave the Friends. 

But Richard Post, not remaining among the 
Friends, there is an interval till the time of the eldest 
son, only filled by the order of his going. 

"29th day of II mo 1745-6." "At the aforesaid 
meeting . . . were appointed to speak with RICH- 
ARD Post concerning his laying of wagers and horse- 
racing and to endeavor to bring him to a sense of his 
Misstep." 

"26th of ist mo 1746." "They had treated with 
Richard Post about his lay'g of wagers on Horse 
Races, and that he seemingly condemned it by word 
of mouth, but he having been spoke to on that ac- 
count several times before and he hath not con- 
demned it underhand therefore it is the sense of this 
meeting not to receive it as a satisfactory Account 
until he doth refrain and condemn ye same more 
fully." 

"Ye 30th d 2nd mo 1746." "that they had again 

* "Nine Partners" was a grant to nine partners in Dutchess County, 
N. Y., and Milbrook is now the best known place in that vicinity. 



Post Family. 83 

spoke with him and that he desired to consider of it 
till the next monthly meeting." When the chronicle 
reads, "he was disowned." 

Henry Post, the eldest son of Richard Post, 
lived a long life from 1733 to 1816, in the vicinity of 
Westbury. The memories of his personality that 
have been handed down relate to his later days; so 
that these gleanings from his younger energy are 
valuable. The enthusiasm of the Colonial Wars had 
sway when he was a young man. In 1759, the meet- 
ing expressed disapproval of Henry Post for being 
Captain of Militia for one year. 

Further we read, "21 of 5 mo 1759. To the mo. 
mtg. at Westbury. Dear friends, these lines may 
inform you that I was educated partly under the care 
and Direction in my very young years until the De- 
cease of my mother and then I was left much to my 
own Liberty and after I came to the Estate and Con- 
dition of a man I was led away into Company and In- 
listed in the malitia Service and there Exercised my- 
self in that practice for about the space of one year 
. . . and had great uneasiness of mind until I could 
not any Longer Comply to use the Discipline of War 
... I desire to come under care of friends, 

"Henry Post. 

"ye 2ist of ye 5 mo. 1759." 

This was satisfactory. One may note, too, that the 
war was about over. His first home was where an old 



84 Post Family. 

cellar long marked the site, just southeast of "West- 
bury pond" and near the present home of CATHERINE 
Post Willis. This land was recently found to have 
been his father's. (Tradition fancied his father lived 
near Wheatly.) This old deed is extremely inter- 
esting from its marking a fact not known before, — 
that he was not the first of the name to follow the 
alternate occupation of a weaver. I have been told 
that Westbury was famed for some sorts of fine weav- 
ing, and that people came from a distance to have 
it done. At any rate, some of the napery is at New 
Utrecht to this day.* 

"To all christian people to whom these Presents 
shall come. Greeting, know ye that I RICHARD POST 
of Hempstead in Queen's County on Nassau Island 
weaver for and in the Consideration of the full and 
just Sum of Eighteen Pounds of Good Current and 
Lawful! money of the Province of New York to me 
in hand well and Truly paid by HENRY PoST of 
Westbury in the Town and Island aforesaid Weaver 

the receipt whereof on a certain 

messuage and small Plot of ground Lying situate and 
being in Westbuary Lying in the fork or Devision 
of the Highway Leading from Wheatly Leading 
Down by John Willis his house and is bounded on 
south by Thomas Carmons Land on the East North 

* Dr. Weir Mitchell, in his story, "Hugh Wynne Quacker," tells us 
all Quakers were obliged to learn a trade. The records show that 
Richard and his sons were weavers, which seems to have been the 
principal occupation of the community at Hempstead. 



Post Family. 85 

and West by sd. Highways aforesaid be it in Quan- 
tity more or Less. 

"Together with the dwelling-house and Improve- 
ments thereon standing ... In witness hereunto I 
have Set to my hand and fixed My Seal this 15 day 
of May in the year 1758. 

"Richard Post (S)" 

"Memorandum that on the day and date within 
written I RICHARD POST received the full payment 
and satisfaction for the consideration money within 
mentioned." 



Henry lived there two or three years, then bought 
a farm farther west, and much better, he thought. 
Here the remainder of his life was spent, and after 
him it was the lifelong home of his youngest son, 
James. 

In 4th month, 1761, HENRY POST and Mary Titus 
(daughter of Edmund Titus, deceased,) declared 
their intentions of marriage." On 6 mo. 3, 1761, 
"Henry Post, son of Richard Post, of Hempstead, 
in Queen's County, on Nassau Island," married 
Mary Titus. Among the witnesses were MARY, 
Elizabeth, Richard and Jotham Post. And af- 
terward William Loines and Thomas Seaman made 
report (to the meeting) "that it was accomplished 
orderly and well." 



86 Post Family. 

From the granddaughters we have pleasant de- 
scriptions of this old house, part of which is still 
standing. 

Here his six sons grew to manhood. The eldest 
son, at the outbreak of the Revolution, is described 
as "a noble-looking lad, tall and athletic, and of a 
high spirit," — doubtless partook of the more positive 
hereditary temperament. There is a story of him 
when an old man, bending his keen, dark eyes to the 
cradles of his blue-eyed grandchildren and saying, 
"no black eyes yet!" 

The British occupation of New York colored the 
Revolutionary experiences of the Long Island town. 

There were English officers and soldiers who were 
quartered in the house. Major Crief died there. 
His body-servant. Jack, who remained in the vicin- 
ity, became a picturesque reminder of 'old war 
times.' " 

"The Hessians cut down the saplings, then, by 
pressing teams and wagons, carted them away to 
forts and barracks. It is a serious loss: in a few 
years our farms will be without wood for use." 

They suffered much loss and annoyance; but after 
a while it was over. Only "the blood-stains in the 
old East-room remained." 

A great-grandson, now living, says: "Once, 
Grandfather Henry Post was coming home from 



Post Family. 87 

New York, when, down where Bedford woods used 
to be, the soldiers took his horse and wagon away. 
He regained it next day over by the Sound." 

On the other hand, they could not voluntarily give 
support to the American army. The Friends re- 
corded their "sufferings." 

"On the 5 mo. 1774 Then came Nehemiah Sammis 
to my house and Demandes of me five Shillings for 
not Appearing at a General Training and Upon my 
refusing to pay it he Took a Table cloth worth 18 
shillings. 

"Dated 1776. Henry Post." 

"i8th of and. mo. 1778. Took from me 17s and 
4 pence for not appearing to stand guard. In 10 mo. 
1778, i-9S-4d." 

"On ye i6th of i mo. Daniel Tofife and Obediah 
Valentine Sergeants Under Captain Cornell and De- 
manded 5 1 5s in Order to pay Some charges in build- 
ing the Fort at Brooklyn and Pay the Guard as they 
say and I Being from home they found Money and 

took 4-5-0. 

"HEx\ry Post." 

There are other similar entries, the last in 1780. 
It was in this year that, his granddaughter relates, 
he went with some other Friends to Nine Partners. 
On reaching the Continental lines they were stopped ; 
but on asking to see General Washington they were 



88 Post Family. 

released, after he had granted them an interview, 
when he made close inquiry relating to the British 
force on the island. "They very candidly told him 
all they knew, and acquainted him with some facts 
before unknown to him." On their return they were 
again received, their account listened to, and passed 
through the lines." The charming character of 
Henry Post is drawn as "Henry Pattison," in a 
little volume called "The Recollections of the Amer- 
ican Revolution," written by his granddaughter, 
Lydia Post (daughter of his son Henry) under the 
name of "Grace Barclay." This book, praised by 
Lydia Post's friend, Washington Irving, was printed 
for private circulation. 

Henry Post was called the "peacemaker" from 
his success in settling disputes for his neighbors. The 
wife of Henry Post was of an early Long Island 
family. She was a descendant of Edmund and 
Martha Titus, whose "memorials" are kept in manu- 
script by so many of their descendants. They both 
lived to great age, and Edmund Titus was one of 
the first settlers in Westbury. Born in England, in 
1630, in the "register of all the passengers which 
passed from ye Port of London for one whole yeare 
ending at Christmas 1635." And as embarker in 
the ship Hopewell are "Robert Titus of St. Kather- 
ines age 35, uxor Hanna Titus 31. Jo. Titus 8, 
Edmund 5." Doubtless it was "a chaste, zealous 
and godly life that was revived by their granddaugh- 



Post Family. 89 

ter." Mary Post, widow of Henry Post, died 
"13th of loth mo. 1823 aged 82 years." 

The second RICHARD POST, Jr. (Richard IV), 
was the second son of RICHARD POST, Jr., and Mary 
Willis. Less is known of him. 

The marriage bond of RICHARD POST and Han- 
nah Beddle bears date August 31, 1757. "At a meet- 
ing at Westbury ye 25 of ye 2nd month 1761, RICH- 
ARD Post Jr. of Nine Partners requested some ac- 
count from us concerning his conduct from his 
Youth, and so upwards to the Time he removed away 
from the Island to Nine Partners, which relation 
was drawn up and read," "and sent. It was perhaps 
not quite what he hoped for, and rather unu- 
sual." It was the sense and judgment of this meet- 
ing yt. we could not properly give him any Certifi- 
cate, because he was not taken under the care of 
Friends by request before he removed from us," but 
the clerk was to "write to the Monthly Meeting at 
the Nine Partners and give them a brief relation of 
the reasons, and of his wild Conduct, when young, 
and of his return to be more sober, some Time before 
he left us." But in 12 mo. 1774 RICHARD POST was 
admitted a Friend at Nine Partners. A Removal 
Certificate was sent from Nine Partners to New 
York, in 1793, for RICHARD POST "removed to New 
York." Another was sent, in 1797, to Saratoga, for 
Richard Post. Whether he had gone back to Nine 
Partners we do not know. Other POSTS removed to 
Saratoga about this time. One, Henry PoST, a min- 
ister, in 1794. 



90 Post Family. 

RECAPITULATION. 

Richard (III), called "Richard, Jr." 

Richard Post III, of North Hempstead, Long 
Island, sometimes spoken of in the Society of Friends 
(Quakers) as RiCHARD, Jr. His first marriage to 
Mary Willis was against consent of parents, but 
"29th day of 8th month, RICHARD and MARY POST 
professed sorrow for having been married by a Jus- 
tice and not according to Friends' order and without 
the consent and knowledge of their parents." 

Friends received them again as members and or- 
dered them recorded. (Extract from Friends' 
records). 

Richard Post (III) and Mary Willis, his first 
wife, had — 

I. Henry Post, born August i, 1733. Married 
1761, to Mary Titus. (For account of Henry Post 
see page 83 and for chart of descendants see Appen- 
dix G.) 

*Mary (Willis) Post died in 1744, May 13th. 



* Henry Willis, tlie common ancestor of the families bearing that 
name upon the Island, was born at Westbury in Wiltshire, England, 
September 14, 1628. where he married Mary Peace, in 1654. On ac- 
count of his predelictions in favor of the sect called Quakers, he was 
unable to enjoy the liberty he desired, and therefore resolved to try 
his fortunes in America. He arrived here about the year 1670, and 
made a purchase of land in a part of the town, which he called, from 
the place of his nativity, Westbury. — (Thompson's "History of Long 
Island," note to P. 53, Vol. 11.) 



Post Family. 91 

2. Richard Post, born May 17, 1735. Married 
Hannah Bedle, August 31, 1757, (For marriage bond 
see "Marriage Bonds," vol. I: 627 in New York 
State Library, Albany.) Died August 8, 1813 ; bur- 
ied in New York. Hannah Bedle was born August 
28, 1734. (For account of RICHARD POST (IV) see 
page 89 and for descendants see Appendix H.) 

3. Mary Post, born December 6, 1737-8. 

4. JOTHAM Post, born April 14, 1740. Married 
Winifred Wright, April 20, 1763. (For marriage 
bond see New York State Library, Albany. "Mar- 
riage Bonds," 7:1 14.) 

Richard Post HI and Elizabeth Willis, his 
second wife, had — 

Stephen, Sarah, and perhaps others. (Stephen 
removed to Nine Partners, where the Quaker records 
lost trace of him, when "he rather chose to leave the 
Friends." 



92 Post Family. 



JOTHAM POST, 



BORN 1740, 



AND His Descendants. 



Post Family. 93 

JOTHAM Post. 

Third son of RICHARD POST III and Mary Willis, 
was born in Westbury, North Hempstead, April 14, 
1740. Died in New York, January 25, 1 8 17. Mar- 
ried April 20, 1763, Winifred Wright, daughter of 
Benjamin Wright, of Oyster Bay, descendant of 
Peter Wright* 

Winifred Wright was born April 12, 1745. Died 
May 29, 181 1. 

In the volume, "Records of First Church, Hunt- 
ington, Long Island, 1723-1779," is the following 
record of marriage: 

"Huntington, 1763, April 20. JOTHAM POST — 
Winifred Wright. JOTHAM POST, of Queen's Coun- 
ty; Winifred Wright, of Suffolk County. 

Baptized 1768, July 22. WRIGHT POST." 

JOTHAM Post was a Quaker, but on account of 
his marriage with one not a member of the Society 
of Friends, he was expelled from the Society, and 
probably soon after moved to New York. In his 
marriage bond (in New York State Library, Al- 
bany, "Marriage Bonds," 7:114.) JOTHAM PoST 

* The first actual transfer of land in the township of Oyster Bay 
was by an Indian deed given in 1653 to Peter Wright, Samuel Mayo 
and William Leveredge, with whom were soon associated William 
Washburn and his son John. ("Early Long Island," by Martha Bockee 
Flint, p. 189.) 



94 Post Family. 

states his occupation as weaver, for in the Society of 
Friends every member was obliged to learn a trade 
(see page 90), and the community at Hempstead 
were principally weavers. As soon as he left the 
Society, he adopted other pursuits, and raised cattle, 
droves of which were regularly sent to market. In 
the history of the "Old Fly Market" he is spoken 
of as follows : 

"JOTHAM Post, another prominent character, was 
in his day considered one of the most scientific men 
in the business. He studied the anatomy of the ani- 
mals which the men converted into food, as the sur- 
geon studies that of men. He was a man of educa- 
tion, yet his kind and truthful disposition, ofttimes 
by the unscrupulous, led him to be imposed upon. 

"In the year 1768, we find him named as one of 
the executors to the estate of Susan Wright. 

"After the Revolution had begun, he removed to 
Brooklyn, for better protection, as he was a man of 
peace, and therefore not called upon to take up arms; 
he was, however, obliged to swear allegiance to King 
George the third. 

"While living in Brooklyn, there were many oc- 
casions offered during the war by which he could 
display the kindness of his heart, in the relief of the 
sick and needy, or the poor afflicted prisoner. Soon 



Post Family. 95 

after peace was proclaimed, he removed to New 
York, in Cherry Street.* 

"In 1795 he gave up business, having been induced 
to accept the office of Assistant Alderman of the 
Fifth Ward, during the years 1796 to 1800. Alder- 
man Post is yet spoken of as having been an honest, 
conscientious and humane magistrate. 

"He was one of the governors of the New York 
hospital in 1795 and 1796, and again in 1801 and 
1802." 

JoTHAM Post and Winifred Wright 
Had 

1. William Post. Born February 11, 1764; died 

September 20, 1814; married Abigail Floyd. 

2. Wright Post, M. D. Born February 19, 1766; 

died June 14, 1828; married Mary Bayley. 

3. Joel Post. Born in New York, June 27, 1768 ; 

died April 7, 1835; married first, Elizabeth 
Browne; second; Alma Floyd. 

4. JOTHAM Post H. Born April 4, 1771 ; died 

May 15, 1817; married first, Magdalen 
Blaau; second, Julia Wattles. 

* A description of Jotham Post's house in Cherry street will 
be found in Appendix I, which concerns his son-in-law, Peter Hawes. 



g6 Post Family. 

5. Nancy Post. Born November 29, 1773; died 

July 4, 1806; married, May 11, 1797, Peter 
Hawes. (See Appendix I). 
Had 

I. William Post Hawes, married to Pris- 
cilla Moris. 

II. Susan Hawes. 

III. Matilda Hawes. 

6. Elizabeth Post. Born March 9, 1776; mar- 

ried Alexander Mowatt. 
Had 

I. Elias Mowatt. 

II. Jane Mowatt, married Berrian. 

7. Allison Post. Born January 25, 1779; died 

March 18, 1848; married Elizabeth Floyd. 

8. Mary Post. Born January 18, 1782; died un- 

married, January 8, 1864. 



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Magdalen Post married Isaac Gibson. 

Nancy Post married Bernard Rhinelander. 

Edwin Post married Lucretia Main. 

Jotham (HI) Post married Angelina Byers. 

Eleanor or Ellen Post married 1st. Francis d'Wolf. 
2nd, John Whipple. 

Julia Post married James d'Wolfe. 

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John Post married Adeline Forbes. 

Edward Post married Clementine Church Post. 

Anne Post married 1st. Wilham Livermore. 
2nd, Edward Livermore. 

—6 Joel Browne Post married Abby Mauran Church. 
—5 • Alfred Charles Post married Harriet Beers. 
Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, unmarried. 
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2nd, William Meredith Hawthorne, 

—6 Mary Post mamed Robert Hawthorne. 

—5 Edward Post, unmarried. 

Lionel Post, unmarried. 

—8 Eugene Post. 

—2 Richard Bayley Post. 

—1 Catherine Post married James Van Cortlandt Morris, 
(No descendants.) 






98 Post Family. 



SONS OF 

JOTHAM POST: 

1. William Post. 

Eldest branch extinct in male line. 

2. Wright Post, M. D. 

3. Joel Post. 

4. JoTHAM Post II. 

5. Allison Post. 

This branch now extinct in male line. 



Post Family. 99 



ELDEST BRANCH. 



William. 



Born February 1 1, 1764; died September 20, 1814; 
married Abigail Floyd, aunt of Alma and Elizabeth 
Floyd, the sisters who married JOEL and ALLISON 
Post, brothers of WILLIAM POST. 

William Post and Abigail Floyd 
Had 

1. Floyd Post, died without issue. 

2. Eliza Post, married to George Washington 

Brown. They had a daughter, married to 
Oscar Coles. 

3. Catharine Ann Post, married Ferris. 

This branch is extinct in the male line. 



lOo Post Family. 



SECOND BRANCH. 



WRIGHT POST, M. D., 

BORN 1766, 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 



Post Family. loi 

second branch. 

Wright Post, M. D. 

This gentleman, so justly ranked among the most 
eminent surgeons and physicians of the United States, 
was the son of JOTHAM, and grandson of RICHARD 
Post, of North Hempstead, L. I., where he was born 
February 19, 1766. His mother was a daughter of 
Benjamin Wright, of Oyster Bay. He is said to have 
possessed, from childhood, a remarkably quiet, ami- 
able and accommodating temper, yet was resolute 
and firm of purpose, industrious and active, both in 
mind and in body. He was never known to engage 
in the mischievous sports and dangerous intrigues so 
common at country schools; and his mother has been 
heard to say that his conduct was never such as to 
occasion her any uneasiness on his account. Little 
is known of his early instruction or pursuits. While 
a boy, he was placed under the tuition of Master 
David Beatty, in the village of Hempstead, from 
whom he received the primary elements of an Eng- 
lish education; casual opportunities for improvement 
enabled him to add to his village instruction, by an 
attendance on other teachers of higher attainments. 

In 178 1 young POST was placed under the super- 
intendence of Dr. Richard Bayley, at that time the 
most celebrated and skilful surgeon in the city of 
New York. With this eminent man, he prosecuted 



I02 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 

his studies with great zeal and success, — the limited 
anatomical collection of his preceptor giving him 
a tolerably fair opportunity of securing a substantial 
proficiency in a knowledge of the human structure, 
and his surgical science being tested by practical ex- 
positions in the hands of his master. Yet finding that 
his professional attainments might be greatly in- 
creased by foreign travel, he repaired to London in 
1784, then only eighteen years old, and became a 
house pupil of the far-famed Sheldon, whose repu- 
tation as a teacher of anatomy and surgery was de- 
servedly high. The zeal of the master was felt by 
the pupil, and his progress was great. He also at- 
tended the valuable lectures of John Hunter and 
George Fordyce. 

That these great opportunities of acquiring knowl- 
edge were not lost upon him, we have the evidence, 
in the lessons of general anatomy and surgery, which 
he afterwards delivered to admiring students, upon 
his return to his own country in the fall of 1786. His 
skill in the practical display of his subjects, by the 
scalpel, was a means of adding much to the value of 
his oral communications. Having spent, as we have 
seen, about two years and a half abroad, during all 
which period he was closely engaged in anatomical 
and physiological pursuits, and in hospital practice, 
he commenced his profession in the citv of New 



Post Family. 103 

SECOND BRANCH. 

York, and in the following year delivered his first 
course of lectures on anatomy in the unappropriated 
apartments of the New York hospital, while surgery 
was taught by Dr. Bayley. 

But owing to the imprudent exposure of an an- 
atomical specimen by some pupils, the business of 
instruction was interrupted, the building itself 
broken into, by what is well remembered as the 
"Doctors' Mob," and the cabinet of anatomical pre- 
parations of his first preceptor, heaped into carts, 
carried off, and triumphantly buried. 

In 1790 he married the daughter of Dr. Bayley, 
who now advised him to repair again to London, in 
order still further to carry into successful operation 
his intentions of a teacher of anatomy and surgery, 
by procuring a suitable anatomical museum. In this 
interesting object he was eminently successful, as he 
brought out with him, in 1793, a collection of sound 
and morbid specimens, which was deservedly con- 
sidered the largest and rarest in this country. It was 
during this second visit to Europe, that he availed 
himself of the valuable instructions of Cruickshank 
and the late Dr. Matthew Baillie. Under them. 
Dr. Post prepared some of the first and most beau- 
tiful injections of the absorbent system which were 
ever seen. 



I04 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 

Upon the reorganization of the medical schools of 
New York, after the Revolutionary contest, by the 
trustees of Columbia College, Dr. PoST was ap- 
pointed, by that body, to the department of surgery, 
while Dr. Bayley held that of anatomy; but on his 
return, in 1793, an exchange took place, and conse- 
quently he assumed the responsibilities of teacher of 
anatomy. Some of his surgical operations were of 
the most extraordinary nature, and attended with 
wonderful success. His fame increased with age 
and experience; and from this time till 18 13, — a 
period of twenty years, — he discharged the duties of 
professor of anatomy and physiology in this institu- 
tion with unexampled success, while he had for asso- 
ciates, in other departments of the healing art, such 
men as Bayley, Mitchell, Hammersley, Hosack, 
Francis, Stringham, Rogers, Smith, Macneven and 
Mott, which, upon the union of the medical faculty 
of Columbia College with the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, and the State medical school of the 
regents of the university, now embracing, under one 
head, the faculties of the two rival institutions, pre- 
sented a confederacy of names, several of which had 
been long conspicuous in the various departments 
of physical science. 

While anatomy was taught by PoST and Dr. John 
Augustine Smith, surgery received its best illustra- 



Post Family. 105 

SECOND BRANCH. 

tions by Mott, the practice of physic its soundest 
doctrines by Hosack, juridical medicine, now first 
taught in this country, by Stringham, and the collat- 
eral branches of the healing art imparted by the lec- 
tures of Professors Macneven, Mitchell and Francis. 

The health of Dr. Post was always delicate, and 
for the purpose of recruiting it, he made a third voy- 
age to Europe in 181 5, and returning the next year 
with renewed vigor, he resumed his professional 
duties. In 18 16 he was chosen a trustee of Colum- 
bia College, which office he held during the residue 
of his life. He was also a member of the Literary 
and Philosophical Society of New York, and a coun- 
sellor for several years, while he was, for more than 
thirty-five years, a surgeon of the New York Hos- 
pital. 

Upon the decease of Dr. Bard, in 1821, he was 
appointed his successor as president of the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, which he retained till 
1826, when he resigned his several offices in the uni- 
versity, and confined himself to the practice of his 
art until a short time before his death, which took 
place at his country seat at Throgg's Neck, June 14, 
1828, and a suitable tablet was afterward erected to 
his memory in Grace Church, New York, of which 
church he was vestryman for a number of years. 



io6 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 

From this hasty outline, it will be perceived that 
Dr. Post was engaged for a period of nearly forty 
years as teacher of anatomy; and his reputation as 
such has rarely been surpassed. His surgical fame 
will mainly rest on his distinguished operation for 
tying the subclavian artery above the clavicle, on the 
scapular side of the scaleni muscles, for a brachial 
aneurism, situated so high in the axilla as to make 
it expedient to tie this artery. 

With other advantages in early life, and a more 
devoted taste for literary acquisitions, he might have 
shone with greater brilliancy. But he was, neither 
from education, nor from his natural or acquired 
habits of reflection, qualified to distinguish himself 
in the ranks of medical literature; and except for a 
very few papers descriptive of some of his most inter- 
esting surgical cases, he has left nothing as an evi- 
dence of literary talent. There is reason to believe 
that he was greatly averse to the exercise of writing. 
His introductory lectures seldom exhibited proofs of 
originality of thought, nor did his anatomical and 
physiological lectures evince any great research, be- 
yond the plain and obvious trait which duty and 
decency prescribed. 



Post Family. 107 

SECOND BRANCH. 

Nevertheless, as a teacher, his lectures were char- 
acterized by judgment, accuracy and minuteness, and 
few have rivaled him as the expositor of anatomical 
science. His general learning was, however, very 
limited, and he was too indifferent to the improve- 
ments which the investigations of modern physiolo- 
gists and pathologists have made. (Thompson's 
"History of Long Island," Appendix, vol. H.) 



"Probably the most noted surgeon of the beginning 
of the century, and one most frequently quoted in 
the annals of the city (New York), was WRIGHT 
Post (1766- 1828), one of the first American pupils 
of John Hunter, in London, being one of a class of 
ten from different parts of the world. He became 
professor of surgery, and subsequently of anatomy, 
in Columbia College. He was a careful, slow, and 
elegant operator, the first in America to tie the sub- 
clavian artery above the clavicle or collar-bone." 
(Memorial History of New York 

by James Wilson.) 

The records of the New York Hospital state that 
Doctor Wright Post served the institution thirty- 
six years; from 1792 to 1821, as surgeon; from 1821 
to 1828 (the year of his death), as Consulting Sur- 
geon. 



io8 Post Family. 

second branch. 

Wright Post, M. D. 

Born February 19th, 1766. Died June 14, 1828. 
Married in 1790, Mary Magdalen, daughter of 
Richard Bayley, M. D. She died April 9, 1856. 

Of Mary Bayley's parentage, the following ac- 
count is interesting; it is taken from "An old family, 
or the Setons of Scotland," by Monsignor Seton 
(Robert Seton, D. D.) 

"The first who came to the Colonies was William 
Bayley, a younger son of the Bayleys of 'Haddes- 
ton,' in Hertfordshire, England, whose arms were: 
'Argent, three torteaux — two and one — a chief 
gules.' He sailed from Lynn Regis for New York 
in 1726. He was a gentleman of means and educa- 
tion, and came originally only on his travels, but 
falling in love with Susannah, the beautiful daugh- 
ter of William Le Compte, or Le Conte as he 
always wrote it, of the French settlement at New 
Rochelle, New York, he married her and re- 
mained there. The family of William Bayley's 
wife, Susannah Le Conte, is said in Baird's 
"History of the Huguenot Emigration to Amer- 
ica" (vol. H, p. 75), to derive from Guillaume 
Le Conte, who was born in Rouen, March 6, 
1659, and died in New York in 1720. There 



Post Family. 109 

SECOND BRANCH. 

is a family tradition that he was descended on 
his mother's or grandmother's side from the 
Barons de Nonant. Guillaume Le Conte married, 
February 17, 1701, Margaret de Valleau, daughter 
of Pierre Joyeaux de Valleau, of the Island of Mar- 
tinique, who died soon after, leaving one child, a 
son, called William, born December 3, 1701. (He 
was married twice, and his first wife was Grace, 
daughter of George Walrond, Esq., of the Island 
of Barbadoes, whose father was a distinguished Roy- 
alist Commander in the Civil War in England, and 
had been created, in 1653, by Philip IV of Spain, 
'Marquis de Vallads, etc' The title continued in 
the family, and is found among other 'Foreign titles 
of Nobility' at the end of 'Burk's Peerage.') 

"William Le Conte married Ann Besly, of New 
Rochelle, and had two daughters, the younger of 
whom, Susannah, married William Bayley. Wil- 
liam Bayley had two sons by this marriage, Richard 
Bayley, born at Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1744 
(the church records were burnt during the Revolu- 
tion, hence the uncertainty of the exact date), and 
William Bayley, born at New Rochelle, August 8, 
1745- 

"Richard Bayley married twice, first in 1767, Cath- 
erine Charlton, daughter of Rev. Richard Charlton, 
and Mary Bayeux, his wife. Mrs. Richard Bayley 



no Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 

died at Newtown, Long Island, in May, 1777, leav- 
ing two daughters, Mary, who married Dr. WRIGHT 
Post, and Elizabeth Ann, who married William 
Seton. 

"The Rev. Richard Charlton, mentioned above, 
was descended from a family of distinction in Ire- 
land. One of his daughters (sister of Catherine, 
wife of Richard Bayley,) married Lord Dongan, 
Governor of the Province of New York, afterwards 
Earl of Limerick. Rev. Richard Charlton was at 
one time assistant minister of Trinity Church, New 
York, from 1732 to 1747. 

"Richard Bayley married the second time, June 
16, 1778, Charlotte Amelia Barclay, daughter of An- 
drew Barclay and Helen Roosevelt. They had a 
large family of sons and daughters, one of whom, 
Guy Carleton Bayley born 1786, married Grace 
Roosevelt November 14, 1813, and their eldest son 
was Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, Maryland. 

"Charlotte Amelia Barclay, second wife and 
widow of Richard Bayley, and sister-in-law of 
Augustus van Cortland, Sr., is buried near the Van 
Cortland Manor house, on 'Vault Hill,' where the 
inscription reads: 

Charlotte Amelia Bayley, 

relict of Doctor Richard Bayley, 

who died the ist day of Sept., 1805." 



Post Family. 1 1 1 

second branch. 

Wright Post and Mary Magdalen Bayley. 

Had 

1. Catherine Charlton Post, born October 20, 

1798, died January 20, 1828. Married Feb- 
ruary 4, 1824, to James Van Cortlandt Mor- 
ris, born August 19, 1796, died January i, 
1843, son of James, grandson of Lewis Mor- 
ris, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

Had 
James Morris, born March 14, 1825, died 
January 29, 1853, unmarried. 

2. Richard Bayley Post, married Harriet Wads- 

worth Terry. 

3. Eugene Post, married first, Priscilla Ridgely 

Howard; second, Margaret Elizabeth How- 
ard (daughters of Governor Howard, of 
Maryland.) 

4. Lionel Post, unmarried. 

5. Edward Post, unmarried. 

6. Mary Post, married Robert Hawthorne. 

7. Emily Post, married first, Fred'k Gore King 

(youngest son of Rufus King) ; married 
second, William Meredith Hawthorne. 



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-4 Emily Hawthorne married John Rogers. 

-3 David Meredith Hawthorne married Nancy 
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-2 Wright Post Hawthorne married Ellen Sharp. 

-I William Meredith Hawthorne. 

-4 John Maxwell Nesbitt Hawthorne married 
1st, Elizabeth Bayard; 2d, Annie Giles. 

—3 Archibald Charles Edward Hawthorne married 
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-7 William Edward Post married Mary Boyd. 

-6 Richard Bayley Post (111) married Ella Stump. 

-5 George Howard Post. 

-4 Sophia Howard Post married Ridgely Duval. 

-3 John Eager Howard Post married Rebecca Lloyd 
Nicholson. 

-2 Mary Magdalen Post. 

-I Eugene Howard Post married Mary Adams. 

-6 Faith Post, died in childhood. 

-5 Emily Post, died in childhood. 

-4 Harriet Terry Post married Casper Wistar Hodge. 

-3 Richard Bayley Post married Eliza Dean Arden. 

-2 Mary Morris Post. 

-1 Catharine Wadsworth Post married Frederick 
Philipse. 



-I James Morris, died unmarried. 



Post Family. 1 13 

SECOND BRANCH. 



Sons of 
Wright Post, M.D., 
Leaving Descendants: 

1. Richard Bayley Post. 

2. Eugene Post. 



114 Post Family. 

second branch. 

Richard Bayley Post, 
Eldest Son of Wright Post, M.D., 
Married Harriet Wadsworth Terry. 
Had 

1. Richard Bayley Post, died in infancy. 

2. Catherine Wadsworth Post, born January 

1 1, 1827; died June 19, 1869; married July i, 
1857, Frederick Philipse,* of Highland 
Grange, Garrisons, New York; born July 5, 
1804; died October 26, 1874; eldest son of 
Mary Philips and Samuel Gouverneur. Had 

I. Mary Philipse, born May 4, 
1858; died January 6, 1862. 

II. Frederick Philipse, Jr., born 
January 9, i860; died March 5, 
'i860. 

HI. Catherine Wadsworth Philipse, 
born September 18, 1861. 

IV. Margaret Gouverneur Philipse, 
born June 27, 1864. 

* Frederick Philipse Gouverneur inherited the old Philipse Home- 
stead of Highland Grange at Garrisons, New York, from his grand- 
father, Capt. Frederick Philips, and dropped the surname of Gouver- 
neur at his request on succeeding to the property by an act of Legisla- 
ture passed April 7, 18,^0. He resumed the old spelling of the name 
Philipse with a terminal e, which his grandfather had dropped. 



Post Family. 115 

SECOxND BRANCH. 

3. Mary Moris Post, unmarried. 

4. Richard Bayley Post, married Eliza Dean 

Arden. 

5. Harriet Terry Post, married Caspar Wistar 

Hodge, no issue. 

6. Emily Post, died in childhood. 

7. Faith Post, died in childhood. 



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-6 Helen Wadsworth Post. 

-5 Lionel Post married Lucille Veronica 
Mravlag. 

-4 Adrian Terry Post. 



-3 Richard Bayley Post married Silvie 
Livingston Strong. 



-2 Arden Post married Mabel Maud 
Blanchard. 



-I Lillian de Peyster Post married John 
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second branch. 

(Rev.) Richard Bayley Post, 

Son of 

Richard Bayley Post 

and Harriet Wadsworth Terry, was born May i6, 

1837- 

Entered St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New 
York, September, 1859; graduated 1863. Entered 
General Theological Seminary, New York, 1863; 
graduated 1865. Went to Hawaiian Islands as xMis- 
sionary in February, 1866. Remained at Honolulu, 
H. I., until May, 1867, when ill health obliged him 
to return home via San Francisco. Remained in 
the latter place at the request of the Bishop of Cali- 
fornia, in charge of the parish of St. James, for three 
months until the return of the Rector. On ist of 
January, 1868, accepted a call to All Saints Parish, 
Sing Sing, N. Y. In April, 1869, accepted a call 
to Christ Church Parish, South Amboy, N. J. Re- 
mained in this parish until May, 1886. In this 
month he took charge of the parish of the Church of 
the Holy Communion, South Orange, N. J., remain- 
ing there until September, 1890. During the next 
two years and a half he had charge of two parishes 
until a Rector could be procured, declining a call 
to each of them. In 1893 h^ ^'^'^s called as assistant 
of Christ Church, Elizabeth, and Vicar of St. Paul's 
Chapel in the same parish. 



1 1 8 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 

Rev. Richard Bayley Post married February 
13, 1866, Eliza Dean Arden, daughter of Colonel 
Thomas B. Arden. 

Colonel Arden was born at Yorkville, July 27, 
1813. Entered West Point in 1831, graduated in 
1835, and was assigned to the 7th Infantry. After 
graduation, he immediately entered on active service 
and was sent out to the Indian frontier. He was en- 
gaged in the Seminole War. He returned to the 
Academy at West Point as assistant instructor of in- 
fantry tactics, resigned in 1842, taking up his resi- 
dence on his father's estate, occupying the old Bev- 
crlv Robinson house, once Arnold's headquarters 
while in command at West Point. Shortly before 
his father's death he removed to the homestead, Ar- 
denia, in 1866. 

At the outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, he of- 
fered his services to the United States Government 
through General Scott, and, not hearing from Wash- 
ington, he was requested to serve as aide to Major- 
General Sandford, which he consented to do (with 
the rank of major), and went through the Patterson 
campaign. On the return of that body, at the in- 
stance and advice of Major-General Richard Dela- 
field, U. S. Army, Governor Edwin D. Morgan ap- 
pointed him his military adviser and aide with the 
rank of colonel. In this latter capacitv he rendered 



Posf Family. II9 

SECOND BRAXCH. 

his best and most efficient service, both to his coun- 
try and State; for, while nominally but an aide-de- 
camp, he was the Board of Examination for all offi- 
cers desiring commands in all branches of the ser- 
vice, and was constantly occupied visiting the camps 
of volunteers in various parts of the State. After- 
ward he was detailed to be near the United States 
Government and look after the general interests of 
our troops in field, camp and hospital, especially the 
Army of the Potomac and its adjacent commands. 

On the expiration of Governor Morgan's admin- 
istration Colonel Arden returned to private life, and 
to the resumption of the quiet retirement on his estate 
and the pleasures and tastes of the old-time country 
gentleman, where he always found abundant amuse- 
ment as well as resource. For many years he kept 
a meteorological journal for the benefit of the Smith- 
sonian Institute. He was interested in the Putnam 
County Agricultural Society, and in this connection 
was the assistant of our government in the introduc- 
tion of manv seeds of various vegetables to the neigh- 
boring farmers. Colonel Arden took a great interest 
in the beautiful little parish church of St. Philip's, 
in the Highlands, and had special charge of the 
grounds surrounding it, serving fo.r a long time as 
both vestryman and warden. 

Colonel Arden married Jane de Peyster, a direct 
descendant of Hon. Johannes de Peyster. 



I20 Post Family. 

SECOND B R A x\ C H . 

Rev. Richard Bailey Post and Eliza Dean Arden 

Had 
r. Lilian de Peyster Post, born at Honolulu, 
Hawaii, November 19, 1866. Married, April 15, 
1896, John Arthur Pulsford. 

2. Arden Post, born January 27, 1868. Gradu- 
ate of Stevens Institute, M. E. (Mechanical Engi- 
neer), 1891. Married, June 27, 1895, Mabel Maud 
Blanchard. 

Had 
Ardex Carey Post, born at South Orange, April 
17, igo2. 

3. Richard Bayley Post H, born October 15, 
1870. Graduated from Columbia College, School 
of Mines, Architectural Department, 1894. Mar- 
ried, April 8, 1901, Silvie Livingston Strong. 

Had 
Alleta Bayley Post, born at Babylon, Long 
Island, September 6, 1902. 

4. Adrian Terry Post, born May 13, 1872. Is 
in Marine Insurance. 

5. Lionel Post, born July 5, 1875. Graduate of 
Stevens Institute, M. E. (Mechanical Engineer), 
class of 1899. Married, March 28, 1903, Lucille 
Veronica Mravlag, daughter of Dr. Victor Mravlag. 

6. Helen Wadsworth Post, born March i, 1880. 



Post Family. 121 

SECOND BRANCH. 

EUGENE POST. 

Second son of Wright Post, M. D., and Mary 
Magdalen Bayley, born October 28, 1810. Died 
August 7, 1884. Married first, July 9, 1835, Pris- 
cilla Ridgely Howard, born July 31, 1814; died 
May 15, 1837. Married second, October 2, 1838, 
Margaret Elizabeth Howard, born August 7, 1816; 
died February 18, 1901. 

Priscilla and Margaret Howard were sisters, and 
daughters of Governor George Howard, of Mary- 
land, and his wife. Prudence Ridgely, daughter of 
General Charles Ridgely, of "Hampton," and Pris- 
cilla Dorsey, his wife. Governor George Howard 
was the son of Colonel John Eager Howard, of 
Revolutionary fame, and his wife, Margaretta Chew, 
daughter of Chief Justice Chew, of Pennsylvania. 





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-4 Martha Post. 

-5 Margaret Howard Post. 

-2 Ale.taiider Hamilton Stump Post. 

-1 Elizabeth Post. 

-5 Walter Post Duvall, 

-4 George Howard Duvall. 

-3 William Edward Post Duv.iU. 

-2 Eugene Post Duvall, dead. 

-1 Ridgely Duvall, dead. 

-s Franck Donalson Post, dead. 

-4 John Eugene Howard Post. 

-5 James Nicholson Post, dead. 

-2 Harriet Parker Post, dead. 

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Post Family. 123 

second branch. 

Eugene Post and Priscillia Howard 
Had 
Eugene Howard Post, born April 23, 1837, 
Died October 10, 1873. Married September ig, 
1865, to Mary Adams, daughter of Captain George 
Adams, U. S. Navy. She was born January 9, 1846; 
died January 7, 1877. 

Had 

1. Eugene Post, born June 30, 1867; died August 

7, 1896. 

2. Margaret Elizabeth Post, born September 

3, 1868; died April 17, 1869. 

3. Sophia How.ard Post, born June 3, 1871 ; died 

March 4, 1874. 
(This branch extinct.) 



124 Poi/ Family. 

second branch. 

Eugene Post and Margaret Elizabeth Howard 

Had 

1. Mary Magdalene Post, born September 13 

1839. 

2. John Eager Howard Post, born January 19, 

1841; died February 12, 1876. Married 
Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson, April 17, 1866. 

3. SoPHL^ Howard Post, born October 25, 1842; 

died April 18, 1897. Married June 4, 1858, 
Ridgely Duvall, of Baltimore, Md. 
Had 
I. Ridgely Duvall, born April 12, i860; 
died June 9, 1895. Married, November 
7, 1888, Margaret Spady Costin of Vir- 
ginia. 

Had 
a. Severn Parker Costin Duvall, 
born March 6, 1893. 

n. Eugene Post Duvall, born June, 1867; 

died August 18, 1867. 
HI. William Edward Post Duvall, born 
February 25, 1872. Married January 
19, 1898, Mary Humerickhouse. 
Had 
a. Mary Humerickhouse Duvall, 
born November 1;, 1901. 



Post Family. 125 

SECOND BRANCH. 

IV. George Howard Duvall, born Decem- 
ber 6, 1873. Married, September, 1896, 
Louise Berry of Washington, D .C. 

Had 

a. Sophia Howard Post Duvall, 

born November 4, 1897. 

b. Louise Berry Duvall, born 

1902. 

V. Walter Duvall, born June 9, 1879. 

4. George Howard Post, born 1844, died 1846. 

5. Richard Bayley Post, born January 8, 1847. 

Married Ella Stump, November i, 1866. 

6. William Edward Post, born July 7, 1850. 

Married Mary Boyce, April 15, 1876. 



126 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 



SONS OF EUGENE POST. 

LEAVING DESCENDANTS : 

r . John Eager Howard Post. 

2. Richard Bayley Post. 

3. William Edward Post. 



Post Family. 127 

second branch. 
John Eager Howard Post. 

Born January 19, 1841. Died February 12, 1876. 

"When the great Civil War broke out JOHN Eager 
Howard Post joined the Confederate Army. He 
left Baltimore, Maryland, September 3, 1861, and 
enlisted first as a private in Company A, ist Mary- 
land Infantry, C. S. Army, serving in this capacity 
in all the battles in which the ist Maryland Infantry 
was engaged, and when his term of service expired, 
he joined the ist Maryland Cavalry Regiment, C. 
S. Army, and was shortly after elected ist Lieutenant 
of Company C. He served with distinction and 
was soon after chosen adjutant of same regiment 
with rank of lieutenant, and afterward rank of 
captain, which he held to the close of the war. He 
fought in most of the great battles, — was with 
"Ashby," "Ewell," "J. E. B. Stewart," and in the 
"Stonewall Brigade," and with General R. E. Lee's 
army. Among other battles, he was present at 
Gettysburg. He was a gallant and accomplished 
soldier, and readily won the love, respect and esteem 
of all who knew him. 

After the close of the war he returned to his home 
in Baltimore, in May, 1865, ^"d soon after engaged 
in mercantile pursuits. 



128 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH. 

When the "Fifth Maryland Regiment" was organ- 
ized he was one of the first to join and was chosen 
first lieutenant of Company K, and afterward 
elected captain of the same company, which position 
he held at the time of his death. He was equally 
popular with officers and men in the "Fifth," as he 
was in the C. S. Army, and his early death cast a 
deep gloom over a large circle of friends, as well as 
over his family." 

April 17, 1866, John E.ager Howard Post mar- 
ried Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (born May 28, 1842), 
second daughter of James Macon Nicholson and his 
wife, Arinthea Darby Parker (a daughter of John 
Andrews Parker, of "Poplar Grove," Accineac 
County, Virginia, and his wife, Harriet Burleigh 
Darby, daughter of Colonel John Darby and his 
wife, Esther Christian, of "Oak Grove," Northamp- 
ton County, Virginia.) 

James Macon Nicholson was son of Judge Joseph 
Hopper Nicholson, of Maryland, and his wife, Kt- 
becca Lloyd (daughter of Hon. Colonel Edward 
Lloyd IV, of "Wye House," Talbot County, Mary- 
land, and his wife, Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of 
Hon. Colonel John Tayloe, of "Mt. Airy," Rich- 
mond County, Virginia, and his wife, Rebecca Plat- 
ter. 



Post Family. 129 

SECOND BRANCH. 

The widow of John Eager Howard Post married 
the second time, Dr. Edward Shippen, of Philadel- 
phia, Pa., on December 3, 1878. They had one 
child, Lloyd Parker Shippen, born October 18, 
1879. Dr. Edward Shippen died April 22, 1895. 



130 Post Family. 

SECOND BRANCH 



John Eager Howard Post and Rebecca Lloyd 
Nicholson 

Had 

1. John Eager Howard Post, born May 10, 

1868; died June 29, 1869. 

2. Harriet Parker Post, born September i, 

1869; died November 26, 1878. 

3. James Nicholson Post, born July 8, 1871; 

died October 2, 1877. 

4. John Eugene Howard Post, bom February 

2, 1873. 

5. Frank Donaldson Post, born September 24, 

1874; died August 21, 1875. 



Post Family. 131 

SECOND BRANCH. 

The only surviving child is JOHN EuGENE HOW- 
ARD Post, born February 2, 1873. He went at the 
age of five years, in December, 1878, to Europe with 
his mother (who married, December 3, 1878, Dr. 
Edward Shippen, of Philadelphia), and was edu- 
cated abroad, principally in Florence, Italy. His 
teacher in Florence was the celebrated Prof. Do- 
menge, member of the French Academy, who after 
1849 left France to settle in Florence, where for 
forty years the Institute Domenge was one of the 
great educational centres. He graduated in 
1 89 1 among the first in his class. He returned to 
Baltimore, September, 1891, and entered the "Johns 
Hopkins University," October, 1891, from which he 
graduated, taking his degree of B. A. in June, 1894. 

In 1895 he went abroad with his mother and half- 
brother, Lloyd Shippen, for a year's travel. Re- 
turned to the University in October, 1896, to take a 
Ph.D. in French, but his health broke down during 
the winter of 1896-97 and he was obliged to leave 
college. For a time he tutored and prepared boys 
for college, but was appointed in April, 1902, teacher 
of French at the "Country School for Boys," near 
Baltimore, where he still remains (March, 1905). 
He is a member of the University Club of Baltimore, 
Maryland. 



132 Post Family. 

second branch. 

Richard Bayley Post. 
Born January 8, 1847. Married, November i, 
1866, Ella Stump, daughter of Alexander Hamilton 
Stump, and Elizabeth Boardley, his wife, of Mary- 
land. They were married at "Stoneton," by the 
Rev. Mr. Lockwood, of Garrison Forest Church. 

Had 

1. Elizabeth Boardley Post, born August 21, 

1867. Married, November, 1893, William 
Costin, son of Robert Costin and Catherine 
Purnell Parker, his wife, of "Kendall Grove," 
Northampton County, Virginia. 

2. Alexander Hamilton Stump Post, born No- 

vember 6, 1870. 

3. Margaret Howard Post, born May 29, 1875. 

Married William McMurtrie Speer, of New 
York. 

Had 
I. Margaret H. Speer. 

4. Martha Goldsborough Post, born September 

24, 1880. 



Post Family. 133 

SECOND BRANCH. 

Alexander Hamilton Stump Post, son of Rich- 
ard Bayley Post, born in Baltimore County, No- 
vember 6, 1870. At the age of sixteen, having de- 
clined a college education, he entered the old estab- 
lished banking house of Wilson, Colsten & Co., 
where he remained four years. In June, 1890, he 
accepted an ofifer of a junior clerkship in the Mer- 
cantile Trust and Deposit Co., the largest financial 
institution in the South. After working through the 
various departments of that company, he was, in 
March, 1897, elected third vice-president. 

He is identified with sports of every kind, and a 
member of the principal clubs of Baltimore. 



134 Post Family. 

second branch. 

William Edward Post. 

Born June 7, 1850. Married April 15, 1876, 
Mary Elizabeth Boyce, daughter of James Boyce, 
of Baltimore, Maryland. 

Had 

1. Florence Elizabeth Post, born January 27, 

1877; died April 12, 1877. 

2. Mabel Howard Post, born August 20, 1878. 

Married, April 14, 1900, Harry Lee Reed, of 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

Had 
I. Mabel Howard Post Reed, born 
August 13, 1901. 

3. James Boyce Post, born January 31, 1881. 

Was drowned by capsizing of boat in a heavy 
storm in Chesapeake Bay, near Baltimore, 
July 20, 1902. 



Post Family. 135 

SECOND BRANCH. 



Daughters of Wright Post, M.D., 
Leaving Descendants: 

1. Mary Post. 

2. Emily Post. 



136 Post Family. 

second branch. 

Mary Post. 

Mary, sixth child of WRIGHT POST, M. D., mar- 
ried Robert Hawthorne. 

Had 

1. Eugene Post Hawthorne, married Frances 

Ludlow. 

Had 

I. Eugenia Hawthorne, married . 

II. Frances Ludlow Hawthorne. 

III. Mary Glover Hawthorne. 

IV. Gertrude Meredith Hawthorne. 

V. Ludlow Hawthorne. 

VI. Robert Howard Hawthorne. 

2. Robert Hawthorne,) r., married Augusta Eliza- 

beth Ludlow, had no children. 

3. Archibald Charles Edward Hawthorne, mar- 

ried Mary Schenckberg. 
Had 
I. Mary Schenckberg Hawthorne. 

4. John Maxwell Nesbitt Hawthorne, married 

first Elizabeth Bayard; second Annie Giles. 
Had 
First marriage. Bayard Hawthorne, married Alice 
White. 

Second marriage, Annie Giles Hawthorne. 



Post Family. lyj 

second branch. 

Emily Post. 

Emily Posx.seventh child of Wright Post.M.D., 
married first, Frederick. Gore King, youngest son of 
Rufus King; no children. Married second, Wil- 
liam Meredith Hawthorne, brother of MARY POST'S 
husband, Robert Hawthorne. 

Emily Post and William Hawthorne 
Had 

1. William Meredith Hawthorne, unmarried. 

2. Wright Post Hawthorne, married Ellen Sharp. 

Had 
I. Norman Hawthorne, 
n. Ellen Hawthorne. 

3. David Meredith Hawthorne, married Nancy 

Rowley. 

Had 
I. David Hawthorne. 

4. Emily Hawthorne, married Henry W. Rogers. 

5. Edward Post Hawthorne, married Elizabeth 

Giles. 

Had 

I. Meredith Giles Hawthorne, 
n. Henry Rogers Hawthorne. 



138 Post Family. 



THIRD BRANCH. 



JOEL POST, 

Born 1768. 
AND HIS Descendants. 




JOEL POST. 



Post Family. 139 

third branch. 

Joel Post. 

Third son of JOTHAM POST I. Born June 27, 
1768; died April 7, 1835. Married, May 21, 1796, 
to his first wife, Elizabeth Browne, who was born 
October 4, 1774. She was the daughter of Dr. Peter 
Browne. Her grandfather was Isaac Browne and 
her grandmother a Miss Cutter-Cowell. 

Isaac Browne was an Episcopal clergyman and a 
Tory. He fled to Nova Scotia when the English 
evacuated New York, November 25, 1783. Her 
brother was a Major in the British Army. The sis- 
ter of Dr. Peter Browne married Mr. Ogden, who 
was Chief Justice of Canada. The Brownes were 
from Boston and related to the Faneuils. 

Joel Post's second wife was Alma Floyd, whom 
he married April 29, 1820. She was born April 19, 
1794. Died November 30, 1843. Alma Floyd was 
sister of Elizabeth Floyd, who married JOEL POST'S 
brother, ALLISON POST. These sisters were nieces 
of Abigail Floyd, wife of WiLLiAM POST, eldest 
brother of JOEL and ALLISON. 

Joel Post was in the wholesale drug importing 
business with his brothers, firm of J. J. and A. PoST. 
In 1820 Joel Post purchased the property known as 
Claremont, and shortly after the adjoining property 
called Monte Alta. In 1873 the city purchased from 



140 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

Joel Post's descendants the house and the land bor- 
dering on the river for the terminus of Riverside 
Park. On the land acquired by the city is the site 
of Grant's tomb and the nearby grave of "An Amia- 
ble Child," about which so much has been written. 
This grave was on the place when purchased by JOEL 
Post in 1820. 



Post Family. 141 

third branch. 

Joel Post and his first wife, Elizabeth Browne, 

Had 

1. Winifred Post, born April 16, 1797; died 

November 29, 1875; unmarried. 

2. Mary Post, born April 2, 1799; died March 

23, 1885 ; unmarried. 

3. George Dominick Post, born February 22, 

1801; died November 2, 1869; unmarried. 
Graduated from Columbia College in 1818. 
Was Counsellor at Law. 

4. Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, born Sep- 

tember 21, 1803 ; died September 21, 1832, un- 
married. Graduated from Columbia Col- 
lege in 1 82 1, C. L. (Counsellor at Law.) 
H. A. V. Post went as Commissioner to 
Greece, in 1 82 1 , in the ship sent with contribu- 
tions to the Greek insurgents. 

5. Alfred Charles Post, M. D., born January 

13, 1806; died February 7, 1886; married 
Harriet Beers. 

6. Joel Browne Post, born June 17, 18 10; died 

December 29, 1882; married Abby Mauran 
Church. 



142 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

Joel Post by his second marriage witli Alma Floyd 

Had 

7. Anne Post, born April 17, 1821 ; died March 

19, 1899; married first, William W. Liver- 
more; 

Had 
I. William Livermore. 
H. Adele Livermore, married Rev. Alex- 
ander Schuyler Hamilton. 
Anne married second, Edward Livermore, no 
issue. 

8. Edward Post, born January 9, 1823; died July 

15, 1851 ; married, November 20, 1844, Clem- 
entine Church, sister of Abby Mauran 
Church, wife of JOEL BROWNE PoST. 

9. John Alexander Post, born December 15, 

1825; died in England, October 28, 1894; 
married Adeline Forbes. 
10. Wright Eli Post, born June 2, 1828; married 
May 2, 1853, Clementine Church, widow of 
his brother Edward; no issue. 

Wright E. Post was a graduate of New York 
University, taking his degrees of B. A. and M. A. 
Afterward went to the Harvard Law School and 
took his degree of LL.B. Was admitted to the New 
York Bar, but did not practise. Spent all the latter 
part of his life in Paris. 



Post Family. I43 

THIRD BRANCH. 



Sons of Joel Post, 

LEAVING descendants: 

1. Alfred Charles Post, M. D. 

2. Joel Browne Post. 

3. Edward Post. 

4. John Alexander Post. 






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Post, (of the 4th branch.) 

-I George Brown Post married Alice Maud 
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-1 1 Mary Post. 

-10 Julia Post married 
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— 9 Erskine Mason Post. 

-8 William Henry Post, 
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"7 Edgar Norris Post. 

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-4 Alfred Augustus Post 
married Emma Dale. 

-3 Henry A. V. Post. 

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-I Emma Post. 



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third branch. 

Alfred Charles Post, M. D. 

Alfred Charles Post, M. D., fifth child of Joel 
Post and Elizabeth Browne, was born January 13, 
1806; died February 7, 1886; married April 13, 
183 1, to Harriet Beers. The following is among 
the very many obituary notices of Dr. PoST: 

"Dr. Alfred C. Post, the well-known surgeon, 
died yesterday (February 7, 1886,) at his residence, 
No. 291 Madison Avenue, in the eighty-first year of 
his age. 

"Dr. Post was the son of JOEL POST, an eminent 
merchant of the old firm of J. & J. PoST, formerly 
of Hanover Square. JOEL POST in his lifetime oc- 
cupied as his country seat the property known as 
Claremont, now forming in part the Riverside Park, 
and embracing the site of General Grant's tomb. 
Much of this property still remains in the ownership 
of the family. Dr. PoST entered Columbia College 
when less than fourteen years old, and, in fact, was 
prepared to enter college two years earlier. After 
his graduation, in 1822, he became a medical student 
in the office of his uncle, Dr. WRIGHT PoST, an emi- 
nent surgeon of a former generation. He also took 
the course of instruction in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, where he graduated in 1827. He 
then went to Europe to complete his medical educa- 
tion, studying in Paris, Berlin and Edinburgh. On 



Post Family. 147 

THIRD BRANCH. 

his return, in 1829, he began the active practice of 
his profession in this city (New York) and continued 
it until the week before his death, a period of nearly 
fifty-seven years. He had a preference for surgical 
practice, and in that department he won his greatest 
fame. In his operations he exhibited marked pre- 
cision and dexterity, and great mechanical ingenuity 
in devising instruments and appliances. He first in 
America operated for stammering, and as early as 
1840 devised a new method of performing bilateral 
lithotomy. His love for surgery kept him in active 
practice as a surgeon after he reached eighty years 
of age, a later period of active practice than that 
reached by any other surgeon in this city. 

"Dr. Post as early as 1836 was made one of the at- 
tending surgeons at the New York Hospital,* and 
more recently was connected with the medical staff 
of St. Luke's and the Presbyterian Hospital. He 
was one of the founders of the medical department 
of the University of the City of New York, taking 
the chair of surgery and pathological anatomy, and 
at the time of his death was President of the Medical 
Faculty and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery 
in that institution. His skill and devotion gave him 
early distinction in his profession, and he was widely 
known in this country and in Europe. 

* Dr. Alfred C. Post, according to the records of the New York Hos- 
pital, served that institution fifty years. He was surgeon from 1836 
to 1853, and consulting surgeon from 1853 until his death in 1886. 



148 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

"Aside from his mechanical skill in operations, 
perhaps Dr. POST'S greatest eminence was due to his 
encyclopedic knowledge. His memory was appar- 
ently never at fault, and all manner of learning and 
statistical information, together with the choicest 
treasures of literature, seemed to be at all times sub- 
ject to his instant command. He was very active 
in the usual medical meetings and conventions, read- 
ing many important papers on these occasions. None 
of his writings, however, were published in book 
form, except some early publications on strabismus, 
club feet and stammering. In late years he labored 
much in the line of plastic surgery, and made im- 
portant reports of operations in that line. From 
early life he was a devoted and consistent Christian. 
He was connected with many of the theological, re- 
ligious, and charitable societies of this city, giving 
largely of his time and of his means in this direction. 
At the time of his death he was President of the New 
York Medical Missionary Association, one of the 
Directors of the Union Theological Seminary, and 
an Elder in the Church of the Covenant. About the 
year 183 1 Dr. POST married Harriet, a daughter of 
Cyrenius Beers, whom he survived nearly nine years. 
Of their children, three sons and four daughters sur- 
vive their father. One of his sons, GEORGE E. PoST, 
of the Presbyterian Mission, at Beirut, Syria, has also 
reached distinction as a surgeon." 



Post Family. 149 

third branch. 

Alfred Charles Post and Harriet Beers 
Had 

1. Emma Post, born 1832; died 1833. 

2. Margaret Elizabeth Post, born 1834; mar- 

ried, 1863, to William S. Opdyke. 

3. Henry Albertson Post, born 1835; died No- 

vember 12, 1861; married, i860, to Fanny 
Smith ; no issue. 

4. Alfred Augustus Post, born 1837; died Sep- 

tember 4, 1903; married, 1867, ^'^ Emma 
Dale. 

5. George Edward Post, born December 17, 

1838; married, 1863, to Sarah Read. 

6. Harriet Edith Post, born 1840; married, 

1859, to Rev. Arthur Mitchell. 

7. Edgar Norris Post, born 1842; died 1842. 

8. William Henry Post, M. D., born 1843; died 

1886; not married. Served in the Civil War 
in the 22d Regiment, New York, as assistant 
surgeon and 3d Sergeant, Company H, in 
1862. In 1863, ist Sergeant; Company H, 
appointed assistant surgeon; afterwards served 
in Sherman's army in Georgia. 

9. Erskine Mason Post, born 1845; died 1852. 

10. Julia Post, born 1847; married 1869, to Rev. 

Peter Augustus Jay. 

11. MaryLavinia Post, born 1849. 



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-5 Edith Mitchell. 

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Post Family. 151 

THIRD BRANCH. 



Sons of 

Alfred Charles Post, M. D. 

Leaving Descendants: 

1. Alfred Augustus Post. 

2. George Edward Post. 



152 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



Alfred Augustus Post. 

Alfred Augustus Post, fifth child of Alfred 
Charles Post, M. D., born 1837; died at Denver, 
Colorado, September 4, 1903. He served as private 
in the 22d Regiment, Company H, during its cam- 
paign, 1862. Married, in 1867, to Emma Dale. 
They 

Had 

I. Alfred Charles Post. 



Post Family. 153 

third branch. 

George Edward Post, M. D. 

George Edward Post, M. D., fifth child of Al- 
fred Charles Post, M. D., born December 17, 
1838; married, September 17, 1863, to Sarah Read, 
daughter of Robert and Frances Read, of George- 
town, D. C. Graduated B. A. from the College of 
the City of New York in 1854. Took, his degree of 
A. M. in 1857 from the same. Graduated with de- 
gree of M. D., i860, from Medical Department of 
the University of the City of New York. Gradu- 
ated from the Union Theological Seminary, New 
York, 1 86 1. Licensed as a preacher of the gospel 
by the Presbytery (Fourth) of New York, April, 
1861. D. D. S., Baltimore College of Dentistry. 
Was commissioned Chaplain of the 15th Regiment, 
New York Volunteers, during the Civil War, with 
rank from 1861 to 1863. Honorably discharged Feb- 
ruary 6, 1863. Appointed Missionary of the A. B. 
C. F. M. to Syria in 1863, ^"d arrived at the seat of 
his labors in November of the same year. Appoint- 
ed Professor of Surgery in the Syrian Protestant Col- 
lege 1867; and later made President of the college. 

All his studies and degrees taken in various 
branches of learning were intended to fit him for 
missionary work, where knowledge of medicine, den- 
tistry and surgery are as important as theology. 



154 P'^^t Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

After his marriage, in 1863, GEORGE PoST went to 
Syria as a missionary under the American Bo'ard, 
but when the "Syrian Protestant College" was 
founded in Beirut he accepted a call to the chair of 
"Surgery and Diseases of the Eye and Ear," and has 
held that position ever since. In connection with his 
work as professor he holds two cliniques a week at 
the "Johanniter Hospital," of Beirut, at which he 
treats from seventy-five to one hundred day patients 
in surgery, reserving the heavy cases for operation 
and regular treatment in the wards of the hospital. 
He also carries on a private city practice, which he 
uses as a means of giving further training to his sur- 
gical students. 

He has written in the Arabic language, text books 
on surgery, physiology and natural history; and pre- 
pared an Arabic Concordance and an Arabic Bible 
Dictionary, besides many articles for scientific and 
religious papers in English. His last work is the 
completion of his "Flora of Syria and Palestine," the 
result of thirty years' study and fifteen years' actual 
preparation, and this work has been done only in 
recreation hours in addition to his regular work. He 
has kept up his preaching, holding a regular Sunday 
service at the Hospital, and preaching something 
like once in three weeks either at the College Chapel 
or at other places of worship. 



Post Family. 155 

THIRD BRANCH. 

Dr. George Edward Post has received the fol- 
lowing decorations: 

Ritter-Kreutz (knight) of the Ducal Order of Sax- 
ony, for service in the Johanniter Hospital at Beirut. 

Decoration of the fourth class of the Othnaniyyeh 
Order, conferred by the Sultan of Turkey for public 
services in behalf of the sick, and for contributions 
to the scientific literature of Syria. 

He has received membership, regular, correspond- 
ing or honorary, in the following societies and or- 
ganizations : 

Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadel- 
phia. 

Academy of Medicine of New York. 

New York Academy of Sciences. 

The Torrey Botanical Club of New York. 

The Linnaean Society of London. 

The Palestine Exploration Fund of London. 

The American Palestine Exploration Society. 

The College of Pharmacy of New York. 

The Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 

The following works have been published by him: 

Structural and Systematic Botany, 303 pp. octavo, 
illustrated. Arabic. 



156 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

The Mammalia, 143 pp. octavo, illustrated. 
Arabic. 

The Birds, 97 pp. octavo, illustrated. Arabic. 

Translation of Cuttter's Physiology, 187 pp. duo- 
decimo, illustrated. Arabic. 

Materia Medica, 304 pp. octavo. Arabic. 

Complete Concordance to the Arabic Scriptures, 
704 pp. octavo, diamond type. Arabic. 

Surgery, 701 pp. octavo, illustrated. Arabic. 

Flora of Syria, Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, 320 pp. 
octavo, illustrated. Arabic. 

Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, 920 pp. small 
octavo, illustrated. English. , 

Five Years' Editorship of the Medical Periodical 
"The Tabib." Arabic. 



Post Family. 157 

THIRD BRANCH. 



George Edward Post, M. D., and Sarah Read 

Had 

1. Arthur Mitchell Post, born December 10, 

1864; died May 17, 1865. 

2. Robert Read Post, born in Syria, March 14, 

1866; died August 19, 1869. 

3. Francis Read Post, born July 5, 1873; died 

September 12, 1873. 

4. Alfreda Post, born October 20, 1869. Gradu- 

ated at Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brook- 
lyn, in 1889; married Rev. Charles Lyman Car- 
hart. 

5. Bertram Van Dyck Post, born October 26, 

1871; married December 26, 1901, to Caro- 
line Hyde Hardin. 

6. Wilfred McIlvaine Post, born October 25, 

1876; married June 30, 1904, to Annie Gard- 
ner Stabb. 



158 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



Sons of 
George Edward Post, M. D. 

1. Bertram Van Dyck Post. 

2. Wilfred McIlvaine Post. 



Post Family. 159 

THIRD BRANCH. 



BERTR.AM Van Dyck Post. 

Born October 26, 1871. Graduated valedictorian 
of his class at Lawrenceville School in 1889. Gradu- 
ated at Princeton in 1893, having taken fouth prize 
in the Junior oration contests, and first prize in the 
Baird oration contest. Studied medicine in the 
Syrian Protestant College. 

Bertr^^m Van Dyck Post married Caroline 
Hyde Hardin, December 26, 1901. 

Betram Van Dyck Post and Caroline 

Hyde Hardin 

Had 

Dorothy Isabel Post, 

born December 21, 1902. 



i6o Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



Dr. Wilfred McIlvaine Post. 

Born October 25, 1876. Graduated at Lawrence- 
ville School in 1893 and at Princeton in 1897. He 
took first prize in the Junior oration contest and 
second prize in the Baird oration contest. He de- 
livered the class oration and one of the English ora- 
tions at commencement, and wrote the class ode. 
Graduated as physician from College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. After completing his studies in 
special branches entered, in September, 1904, on 
the duties of medical missionary in a hospital at 
Caesarea, Asia Minor, where he has taken up his resi- 
dence. 

Wilfred McIlvaine Post married June 30, 1904, 
in Greenock, Scotland, to Annie Gardiner Stabb, 
daughter of the late Nicholas S. Stabb. 



Post Family. i6i 

THIRD BRANCH. 



Daughters of Alfred Charles Post, M. D., 
leaving descendants : 

1. Margaret Elizabeth Post. 

2. Harriet Edith Post. 

3. Julia Post. 



1 62 Post Family. 

third branch. 

Margaret Elizabeth Post. 

Born 1834; married, 1863, to William S. Opdyke. 

Had 

1. George Opdyke. 

2. Alfred Post Opdyke, married Hilde Beck. 



Harriet Edith Post. 
Born 1840; married, 1859, to Rev. Arthur Mit- 
chell. 

Had 

1. Susan Mitchell, married RoUo Ogden. 

2. Alice Mitchell. 

3. Harriet Post Mitchell. 

4. Margaret Johns Mitchell. 

5. Edith Mitchell. 

6. Arthur Mitchell. 

7. Lucy Mitchell, died. 

8. Julia Post Mitchell. 



Post Family. 163 

third branch. 
Julia Post. 

Born 1847; married, 1869, to Rev. Peter Augustus 

Jay- 
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1. Pierre Jay, married Louisa Shaw Barlow, 
daughter of Major-General Francis Barlow. 

2. Mary Rutherford Jay. 

3. Laura Prime Jay, married Frederic DeWitt 

Wells. 

4. John Jay. 



164 Post Family. 



THIRD BRANCH. 



JOEL BROWNE POST, 



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third branch. 

Joel Browne Post. 

Joel Browne Post, sixth child of Joel Post, 
Born in New York, June 17, 18 10; died December 
29, 1882. Married, July 7, 1835, Abby Mauran 
Church, who was born October 15, 18 16; died Feb- 
ruary 12, 1894. 

Abby Church and Clementine Church (wife of 
Edward Post, and afterward of Wright E. Post,) 
were from Providence, Rhode Island, the daughters 
of Captain William Church, descendant of Colonel 
Benjamin Church, celebrated in the early colonial 
wars with the Indians. He captured Annawon, the 
great Indian Chief, and put an end to "King Philip's 
War." 

Colonel Benjamin Church was born at Duxbury, 
near Plymouth, in 1639. He settled after the war 
in Rhode Island, first at Bristol, then at Fall River, 
lastly at Seconet. 

Abby Mauran Post's sisters, besides Clemen- 
tine, were Hannah, married to Nicholas Hey- 
ward, of South Carolina, and MARTHA, married to 
James Otis, of Boston, and afterward of New York. 

Joel Browne Post was graduated at Columbia 
College in 1828. 



Post Family. 167 

THIRD BRANCH. 



Sons of 

Joel Browne Post, 

leaving descendants : 

1. George Browne Post. 

2. Charles Alfred Post. 



1 68 Post Family. 

third branch. 

George BroWxNE Post. 

Eldest son of JOEL Browne Post and grandson of 
Joel Post, was born in New York, December 15, 
1837. After leaving Mr. Churchill's Military 
School he studied at the University of the City 
of New York and graduated in the class of Civil En- 
gineering in 1858. Immediately after his gradua- 
tion he began the study of architecture under the 
late Richard Morris Hunt, a man whose name will 
remain famous in the annals of the profession in this 
country not only for his own noble works, but for 
the influence he exerted upon his art and the many 
noted leaders of architecture in America who were 
his pupils. 

At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, GEORGE 
Post had just begun the practice of his profession. 
He, however, laid aside his chosen career, entered 
the army as Captain of the 22d N. G. N. Y. — he had 
previously been Captain of the Regiment of Union 
Greys, which had been organized for home service, 
from which the 22d Regiment was formed. 

George Post's record during the service of the 
22d Regiment in the field is as follows: 

Captain, commissioned September 24, 1861, com- 
manding Company C during the first campaign in 
Maryland and Virginia, and second campaign, in 



Post Family. 169 

THIRD BRANCH. 

1863, in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and New York 
during the riots. 

He served as Captain and volunteer aid to General 
Burnside, commanding the Army of the Potomac, 
at the time of the battle of Fredericksburg, and was 
thanked on leaving the stafif, "for distinguished ser- 
vices" in special orders. 

On November 3, 1863, GEORGE POST was 

elected Major of the 22d Regiment. 
Lieutenant-Colonel, January 12, 1866. 
Colonel, February 8, 1867. 
Resigned September 12, 1868. Honorably 
discharged January 9, 1869. 
To quote from a biographical article on GEORGE 
Browne Post, the following is added : 

"Among the great architects, not only of the 
United States but of the modern world, Mr. GEORGE 
B. Post occupies a position of singular prominence. 



170 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

It is a fact recognized by the public as well as by 
his own profession, and it may further be said that 
no individual has done so much to beautify and 
adorn the metropolis. It would be impossible to 
even suggest the number of architectual works now 
adorning New York and other cities that are due to 
his genius. The long list of public and private con- 
structions include many of the most famous resi- 
dences in the city, together with such notable features 
of New York as the Equitable, the Mills, the Times, 
the Havemeyer and Post buildings, the New York 
Hospital, the Produce and Cotton Exchanges, Chick- 
ering Hall; the residences of Mr. Cornelius Van- 
derbilt and Mr. C. P. Huntington. At the World's 
Fair, in Chicago, in 1893, he was the architect of 
the Manufacturers and Arts Building. While Mr. 
Post has been a successful and exceedingly busy man, 
he has also been a public-spirited citizen, giving his 
advice and experience ungrudgingly for the benefit 
of his city upon matters of an artistic or professional 
character." 

George Browne Post was President of the Archi- 
tectural League and of the American Institute of 
Architects; also President of the Fine Arts Federa- 
tion of New York. He is a member of many of the 
principal sporting clubs in the country and the prin- 
cipal social clubs of New York. 



Post Family. iji 

third branch. 

Dinner to George B. Post. 

"The Vanderbilt gallery in the Fine Arts Building 
has been the scene of many important gatherings, but 
of none more interesting than the dinner given last 
night by the Architectural League to GEORGE B. 
Post, the architect. It was a memorable occasion 
in every way. Four hundred men sat down to the 
table, representing not only architecture, sculpture, 
and decoration, but writers upon these subjects, and 
laymen who are interested in them, with a fair 
sprinkling of visitors from other cities, lay and pro- 
fessional." 

"The whole affair was characterized by a genuine 
and spontaneous enthusiasm. The occasion was 
primarily intended to honor a man who is a leader 
of the architectural profession in this city. But it 
meant even more than this. It was a recognition of 
the part which the architects, as a body, have played 
in the general progress of the past quarter of a cen- 
tury; the stimulus which they have given to the sis- 
ter arts of sculpture and painting; and the debt which 
all who are interested in national and civic improve- 
ment owe to them." 

"American architecture is as distinctively Ameri- 
can as our constitution. It has had to face conditions 
of its own, and to meet them by methods which it has 
been obliged to discover for itself. For example, the 



172 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

use of wrought iron and steel construction has revolu- 
tionized architecture just as much as it has revolu- 
tionized ship-building. It has greatly increased the 
scope of knowledge necessary to an architect. He 
needs to be much of an engineer also. And here is 
found the special appropriateness of coupling Mr. 
Post's name with the movement." 

"He was brought up as a civil engineer, so that 
since he has practised architecture, he has been able, 
as an expert, to exercise a strong direction over the 
new combination. As a matter of fact, the first use 
of iron construction in a building was made by him. 
In the Produce Exchange Building, in this city, some 
nineteen years ago, he built for the central courtyard 
wall a cage of cast and wrought iron, with panels of 
brickwork; the precursor of the present steel cage. 
Since then the 'epidemic of steel construction' has 
spread wide and high, and the number of problems 
it has presented for immediate solution is incalcul- 
able. To mention only one : the relative responsi- 
bility of the frame-work and of the masonry in sup- 
porting weight is a most important one. Mr. POST 
has always contended for the conservative view, mak- 
ing his masonry sufficiently thick to provide an ade- 
quate protection to the steel, and also strong enough 
to support itself and to resist the tendency to expand 
in case of conflagration." 



Post Family. ij-i 

THIRD BRANCH. 

"Moreover, in the encouragement of mural paint- 
ing and sculpture, Mr. PoST has done much. The 
World's Fair was certainly most important in the 
opportunity it gave to sculptors and painters to work 
in connection with architecture. Messrs. McKim, 
Mead & White probably designed the Agricultural 
Building with a view to exterior color; at any rate, 
it entered early into their scheme. But in the pavil- 
ion of the Manufactures Building there was no such 
need of figure compositions on the ceilings. They 
were a luxury, and probably no one but Mr. PosT 
could have secured them. He simply assumed that 
there could be no doubt about their advisability, and 
over rode the opposition." 

"The considerations thus roughly outlined formed 
the framework around which the various speeches 
of the evening were built. Mr. Russel Sturgis went 
over much of the ground, dwelling especially upon 
the interior decoration which Mr. PoST had been in- 
strumental in introducing into private mansions. 
Notable speeches were made by non-professional 
men: the Rev. Thomas Hastings; Mr. Beck, a law- 
yer, of Philadelphia; and Judge Howland. Mr. 
Beck made the hit of the evening, when he said that 
Philadelphians have the advantage over New York- 
ers in that from their distance of ninety miles ofif 



174 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

they alone could view New York sky-scrapers in 
their proper perspective. Judge Howland made a 
witty speech, in which he recited the war experience 
of Mr. Post and himself." 

"The reception gallery was hung with drawings 
of some of the most important buildings for which 
Mr. Post has been responsible; the place of honor 
being occupied by drawings and blueprints of the 
famous Manufactures' Building at the World's 
Fair. This colossal structure, the largest of the kind 
ever constructed, was perhaps typical of Mr. Post's 
general work: big, well adapted to utilitarian needs, 
and possessing a large measure of dignity. Around 
the walls of the Vanderbilt gallery were hung speci- 
mens of mural paintings executed for Mr. Post's 
buildings, including the detail drawing of Mr. Lath- 
rop's ceiling in Mr. C. P. Huntington's New York 
house, and Mr. Millet's tympanum, that soon will be 
placed in the Agricultural Bank of Pittsburg, as a 
companion to Mr. Blashfield's, which is already in 
place." 

"The gathering was presided over by Mr. Bruce 
Price, and will be memorable, not only as a personal 
tribute, but as an object lesson of the strength of the 
art movement in this city." 

"From the 'Evening Post,' December i6, 1897." 



Post Family. ijc 

THIRD BRANCH. 

October 14, 1863, GEORGE Browne Post married 
Alice Maud Stone, daughter of William W. Stone, 
a prominent merchant of New York." 

George Browne Post and Alice M. Stone 
Had 

1. George Browne Post II, born July 30, 1864; 

married Julia Cotton Smith. 

2. William Stone Post, born May 10, 1866; 

married Lillian Hood Adams. 

3. Allison Wright Post, born July 25, 1867; 

married Katharine Beekman Hoppin 

4. James Otis Post, born August 3, 1873. 

5. Alice Winifred Post, born August 19, 1875. 



J 76 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



Sons of 

George Brown Post : 

1. George Browne Post II. 

2. William Stone Post. 

3. Allison Wright Post. 

4. James Otis Post. 



Post Family 177 

THIRD BRANCH. 

George Browne Post II. 

Born July 30, 1864. Was christened GEORGE 
Augustus Post, and subsequently changed his name 
to George Browne Post. Graduated from St. 
Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, in 
1882; from Columbia College, 1886; joined the New 
York Stock Exchange, 1888. November 22, 1888, 
George Browne Post II married Julia Cotton 
Smith, daughter of the Rev. John Cotton Smith. 

George Browne Post and Julia Cotton Smith 

Had 

1. George Browne Post 1 1 1, born March 3, 1890. 

2. Harriet Appleton Post, born November 26, 

1894. 



178 Post Family. 

third branch. 

William Stone Post. 

Born May 10, 1866. Graduated from St. Mark's 
School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1884; Colum- 
bia College, in the Arts, 1884-1886; Columbia Col- 
lege, in the Mines, Ph.B., 1890; traveled and studied 
abroad. Is an architect and associated with his 
father, GEORGE BROWNE PoST. June 14, 1894, WIL- 
LIAM Post married Lilian Hood Adams, daughter 
of the distinguished Confederate General Hood, and 
adopted daughter of Thatcher M. Adams, Esq. 

William Stone Post and Lilian Hood Adams 

Had 

1. Marion Hood Post, born May u, 1895. 

2. Lilian Post, born July 31, 1896. 



Post Family. 179 

third branch. 

Allison Wright Post. 

Born July 25, 1867. Graduated from St. Mark's 
School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1886; from 
Columbia College, 1890; from New York Law 
School, 1892; was admitted to the Bar June, 1892. 
December 15, 1898, ALLISON WRIGHT POST married 
Katharine Beekman Hoppin, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William Warner Hoppin. 

Allison Wright Post and Katharine Beekman 

Hoppin 

Had 

Katharine Hoppin Post, born September 25, 
1901. 



i8o Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



James Otis Post. 

Born August 3, 1873. Graduated from St. Mark's 
School, Southborough, Massachusetts. Was at 
School of Mines, Columbia College, two years; then 
went to Paris to study architecture at the Beaux Arts. 
Is associated with his father, GEORGE BROWNE POST. 



Post Family. l8l 

third branch. 

Charles Alfred Post. 

Charles Alfred Post, born in New York City, 
January 6, 1844, is the second son of JOEL BROWNE 
Post, and a grandson of JOEL PoST. 

He entered Columbia College at the age of fifteen 
years, and at the end of his sophomore year was 
given the prize for oratory. 

In 1861, he joined the 22d Regiment as a private, 
and during the space of one year held the positions 
of corporal, second sergeant, first sergeant, color ser- 
geant, and sergeant major. 

During the Civil War campaign of 1862 he was 
promoted in the field to the grade of second lieuten- 
ant of Company C. On the return of the one hun- 
dred day troops, he resigned his commission and 
started his senior year at Columbia College. Before 
the end of the first term, however, he received 
the ofifer of an appointment in the Navy, upon 
a vessel commanded by Captain John P. Bank- 
head, a friend of his father. He therefore 
applied to the college authorities and received 
an honorable discharge, signed by the president, 
Charles A. King, which stated that he had cred- 
itly performed his college duties and was withdrawn 
with the regret of the faculty. 



182 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

His next service, therefore, was upon the U. S. S. 
"Florida," commanded by John P. Bankhead, at- 
tached to the North Atlantic Squadron, and stationed 
off Wilmington, N. C. 

During this period of his service, the Florida par- 
ticipated in a number of minor engagements and cap- 
tured several prizes. Captain Bankhead was finally 
invalided and sent to New York. The darkest days 
of the war had passed, and, at the earnest solicitation 
of his parents, CHARLES A. Post sent in his resigna- 
tion and entered the Columbia College Law School, 
from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. 
He actively practised the profession of law but a 
short time, various important family interests soon 
demanding; his undivided attention. 



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On November 18, 1874, he received the commis- 
sion of captain upon the staff of General Alexander 
Shaler, commanding the First Division of New York 
State troops. In this service he was promoted, 
March 27, 1876, to the grade of major, and on the 
26th of December, 1877, to that of lieutenant-colonel 
and chief of ordnance. 

His early naval training left a taste for the sea, 
and he became deeply interested in yachting. When 
the idea of a National Naval Reserve was first agi- 
tated, he, in company with a number of well-known 



Post Family. 183 

THIRD BRANCH. 

yachtsmen, with the idea of preparing themselves to 
pass the examination prescribed in a bill then before 
Congress, studied practical navigation and received 
his diploma as navigator. The knowledge of nau- 
tical astronomy, thus acquired, awakened a deep in- 
terest in the subject and led to a wider study of the 
science of astronomy. 

He, therefore, at his country seat, Strandhome, 
Bayport, Long Island, built and equipped an as- 
tronomical observatory, and soon became widely 
known as an amateur astronomer, and at the annual 
commencement of 1900, Columbia University, in 
recognition of his scientific work, conferred upon 
him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Dur- 
ing the same year he was appointed one of the as- 
tronomers attached to the Eclipse Expedition of the 
U. S. Naval Observatory, and he accompanied that 
expedition to Barnsville, Georgia, in charge of in- 
struments, which he loaned the government for that 
occasion. 

Mr. Post is a member of the Naval Order of the 
United States, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical 
Society, a Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the New 
York Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the As- 
tronomical and Astrophysical Society, and a member 
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and many 



184 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

other literary and social clubs in New York, the city 
of his birth. 

Charles Alfred Post married October 28, 1875, 
Marie Caroline de Trobriand Post, daughter of 
the Comte Philippe Regis de Trobriand, who served 
with distinction in the U. S. Army during the Civil 
War, and attained the rank of major-general, the 
highest rank ever held in the U. S. Army by any 
Frenchman, except Lafayette. Marie Caroline de 
Trobriand, at the time of her marriage to CHARLES 
Alfred Post, was the widow of his distant cousin, 
Albert Kintzlng Post. (See fourth branch.) 



Post Family. 1 85 

third branch. 

Charles Alfred Post axd Marie Caroline Post 

Had 

1. Beatrice de Trobriand Post, born December 

31, 1877, married, August 27, 1902, to Duncan 
Candler, son of Flamen Ball Candler, direct 
descendant of Rev. Eliphalet Ball, founder of 
Ballston, N. Y., and cousin of Mary Ball, 
Washington's mother. 

Beatrice de Trobriand Post and Duncan 
Candler. 
Had 
Edith Beatrice Candler, born November 29, 
1903. ^ 

2. Edith Church Post, born August 7, 1882, 

married, October i, 1902, to Goelet Gallatin, 
direct descendant of Albert Gallatin, Secre- 
tary of the Treasury during the administra- 
tions of Jefiferson and Madison, and minister 
to France and England. 
Through his mother, Almy Goelet Gerry, Goelet 
Gallatin is a direct descendant of Elbridge Gerry, 
signer of the Declaration of Independence, Governor 
of Massachusetts, and Vice-President of the United 
States. Through his paternal grandmother (who 
was a Stevens) he is a descendant of General 
Ebenezer Stevens, of Revolutionary fame. 



1 86 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



Edward Post 
AND HIS Sons: 

1. Edward Church Post. 

2. Frederick Alfred Post. 



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1 88 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH. 

Edward Post, eighth child of Joel Post. Born 
January 9, 1823 ; died, in Paris, July 15, 1851. Took 
his degree of B. A. at New York University. Mar- 
ried, November 20, 1844, to Clementine Church, 
who was born September 12, 1824, and died in Paris 
May 8, 1887. Clementine Church was the sister of 
Abby Mauran Church, wife of JOEL Browxe Post, 
brother of Edward Post. 

Edward Post and Clementine Church 
Had 

1. Edward Church Post, born in Paris, Septem- 

ber 9, 1845. Was brought up abroad and re- 
sided many years in Paris. In 1882 came to 
reside permanently in New York. Married, 
April 17, 1895, ^^ Emilie Thorn King, daugh- 
ter of Edward and Emma Thorn King. 

2. Mary Alma Post, born April 2, 1847; died 

August 2, 1849. 

3. Frederick Alfred Post, born at Claremont, 

July 18, 1850. Brought up abroad. Was 
at Oxford University. Resided in Paris, then 
moved, in 1882 to London. Was considered 
among the amateur singers of first rank in 
Europe, and now devotes his time to musical 
composition. Has published some very 
much appreciated songs. 



Post Family. 189 

THIRD BRANCH. 

Frederick A. Post was married, February 25, 
1873, to Harriet Bininger, daughter of Abra- 
ham Bininger. 

Frederick Post and Harriet Bininger 
Had 

1. Frederick Floyd Post, born in Paris, Decem- 

ber 16, 1873; di^d '" Paris, January 20, 1874. 

2. Wright Post, born in Paris, December 10, 

1874- 

3. Elizabeth Charlotte Post, born in Paris, 

January 2, 1876. 

4. DONNELL Shep.-^RD Post, born in Paris, Feb- 

ruary 12, 1877. 

5. George Henry Draper Post, born in Fon- 

taineblau, January 27, 1882. 



190 Post Family. 

THIRD BRANCH 



John Alexander Post 
AND HIS Children: 

1. Arthur Post. 

2. Alice Post. 

3. John Morris Post. 





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Marie Anne Jeanne Louise 
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■I Helen Agnes Post. 



192 Post Family. 

third branch. 

John Alexander Post. 

John Alexander Post, ninth child of Joel Post. 

Born December 15, 1825; died in England, Oc- 
tober 28, 1894. Married, February 5, 1850, to 
Adeline Forbes. She died in Cannes, France, Feb- 
ruary 15, 1891. 

John Post spent most of his life abroad, princi- 
pally in Pau, France, but resided also in England, 
where he rented for several years Williamstrip, near 
Oxford, the property of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. 

He excelled in sports of all kinds, riding, fishing, 
shooting, golf, etc. 

John Post and Adeline Forbes 
Had 

I. Arthur Post, born died . He gradua- 
ted at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. 
Resigned from the navy. Resided abroad. 
Married, October 2, 1875, Elizabeth Wads- 
worth, daughter of General James Wads- 
worth, of Geneseo, N. Y. After ARTHUR 
Post's death his widow married Arthur 
Hugh Smith Barry, M. P., who later became 
Lord Barrymore. 



Post Family. 193 

third branch. 

Arthur Post and Elizabeth Wadsworth 

Had 
Helen Agnes Post. 

2. Alice Post. Married first to Amedee de 

Montgeon, who died, in Paris, June 25, 1876, 
leaving one child, a daughter, Gabrielle Ma- 
rie Alice de Cavelier de Montgeon, born Jan- 
uary 31, 1876, in Pau, France. 

Alice Post de Montgeon married second, Mariano 
de Cuadra, has one daughter, Marie Anne Jeanne 
Louise Therese de Cuadra, born October 14, 1884, 
in Pau, France. 

3. John Morris Post. Was at Eton, England. 

Was appointed American Consul at Pau, 
France, where he has almost always resided. 
Married first, Cornelia King; they were di- 
vorced. Married second, Violet Tottenham, 
daughter of Tottenham, M. P. 

John Morris Post and Cornelia King 
Had 

1. Reginald Morris Post, born November 16, 

1879, in Pau, France. 

2. Remsen Forbes Post, born April 23, 1883, in 

Pau, France. 



FOURTH BRANCH. 



JOTHAM II, 

(born 1771) 

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-6 Laura Virginia Rhinelander. 

-5 Ellen Lucretia Rhinelander married Anson Van Horn Leroy. 

~4 Bernard Rhinelander. 

-3 Adelaide Rhinelander. 

-2 Charles Edward Rhinelander married Matilda Cotheal. 

-1 EmUy Catharine Rhinelander married John Watson. 



—6 Ellen AUen Post. 

~5 Mary Post, died in infancy. 

-4 Lucretia Maria Post married William T. Moore, No issue. 

-8 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post married 1st, Maria Taylor. 

Snd, Caroline McLean. 

—a Edwin Augustus Post married Margaret Gibbes. 

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-8 Mary EUen Post, died in infancy. 

-7 Jotham WUMam Post married Eliza Chapman. 

-ij Angelina Post married Prof. Caspar Wistar Hodge, of Princeton. 

-5 Madeline Post married George E. Stone. 

-4 Sarah Byers Post married John Reed. 

—3 Charles William Post, died in childhood. 

2 Edwin Frederick Post maiTied Adeline Mitchell. 

1 James Byers Post married Caroline How. 



Post Family. i^J 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

JoTHAM Post II, Jr. 

JoTHAM Post II, Jr., fourth son of JoTHAM Post 
I. Born April 4, 1771 ; died May 15, 1817. Gradu- 
ated from Columbia College in 1792. Studied medi- 
cine and took his degree of M. D. in 1793, but did 
not practise. 

With his brothers, JOEL and ALLISON, he founded 
the drug importing firm of J. & J. & A. PoST, and 
made a large fortune. 

He was director of the New York Hospital, 1798- 
1802; member of Common Council of the City of 
New York; member of New York Assembly, 1795, 
1805-8, and member of Congress from 18 13-15. 

The "Memorial History of the City of New 
York," says: "The new Congress met on Thursday 
(May 24). New York was represented by Egbert 
Benson and JOTHAM POST, Jr., both Federalists, etc., 
etc." 

JOTHAM Post, Jr., was married twice. His first 
wife was Magdalen Blaau, of Dutch origin, daugh- 
ter of Waldron Blaau and Eleanor Cresson.* They 

*For details of the Waldron and Blaau-Cresson families and mar- 
riage bond of Waldron Blaau and Eleanor Cresson, see Appendix J. 



198 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

were married by the Rev. Dr. McKnight, on August 
10, 1792. Magdalen Blaau was born August 14, 
1771, and died May 29, 181 1. She was always called 
by her husband Lanah, by which name her death is 
entered in his family Bible (now in possession of his 
granddaughter, Mrs. Edward Anthon), and by 
which name, or its initial L, he always writes of her 
in his diary, kept from day to day in 1792-93. This 
diary, begun in 1792, when he was twenty-one, just 
one month married, and studying medicine, is most 
interesting. He writes every evening the events of 
the day, and comments on the lectures heard ; ex- 
presses his hesitancy on whether after taking his 
degree he will practise medicine, or, following the 
advice of the great Dr. Bayley, his instructor, he will 
send to England for trained clerks and drugs and 
found a much-needed business in New York in that 
day, the importation of drugs by wholesale. He 
also describes the efforts made to obtain the restora- 
tion to his widowed (Tory) mother-in-law, Mrs. 
Blaau, of her confiscated property. This diary is 
now in the possession of his great-great-grandson, 
Waldron Kintzing Post, eldest son of Albert 
KiNTziNG Post, son of Abraham Kintzing Post, 
eldest son of Waldron Blaau Post, eldest son of 
JOTHAM Post. Jr. 



Post Family. 199 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

JOTHAM Post, Jr.'s second wife was Julia Strong,* 
widow of George Wattles. She was born March 17, 
1777. They were married by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, 
on the 2d of October, 181 5. A touching part of 
JOTHAM Post, Jr.'s, diary mentioned above, is his 
evident adoration for his father, whom he never fails 
to visit every day, and of whom he always speaks 
with expressions of the deepest afifection. He died 
three months after this much-beloved father: JOTH- 
AM Post Fs death occurring January 25, 1817, and 
JOTHAM Post, Jr.'s, on May 15, 18 17. 

*"Julia Strong, born March 17th, 1777; married George Wattles, 
and after his decease, Jotham Post, Jr., member of New York As- 
sembly for four years, graduate at Columbia College in 1792, and 
member of Congress from New York (1813-15). No issue from either 
marriage." 

From "The History of Elder Strong's Descendants," by B. M. 
Dwight, yol. I, p. 710. 



200 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

JoTHAM Post, Jr., and Magdalen Blaau 
Had 

1. Waldron Blaau Post, born May 30, 1793; 

died July 31, 1874; married Sarah Elizabeth 
Parker. 

2. Ur Post, born February 19, 1795; died April 

16, 1796. 

3. Julia Lynch Post, born February 16, 1797; 

died December 7, 1878; maried May 15, 1815, 
to James D'Wolfe. 

4. Eleanor Post, born April 19, 1799; died April 

26, 1872; married first, to Francis L. B. 
D'Wolfe, March 9, 1820; married second, to 
John Whipple, December, 1839. 

5. JOTHAM William Post, M. D., born May 15, 

1801 ; died May 31, 1841 ; married Angelina 
Thayer Byers. 

6. Edwin Post, born June 12, 1804; died June 3, 

1888 ; married first, Lucretia Ann Main ; mar- 
ried second, Cornelia Davis. 

7. Nancy Elizabeth Mary Post, born October 

8, 1806; died February 21, 1895; married 
Bernard Rhinelander. 

8. Magdalen Rachel Post, born December 14, 

1810; died January 29, 1841; married Isaac 
Gibson. 



Post Family. 20 1 

FOURTH BRANCH. 



Sons of Jotham II 

LEAVING DESCENDANTS : 

1. WaldrOxN Blaau Post. 

2. Jotham William Post. 

3. Edwin Post. 



202 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Waldron Blaau Post. 

Waldron Blaau Post, first child of Jotham 
Post II, was born May 30, 1793 ; died July 31, 1874; 
married, on December 11, 1816, to Sarah Elizabeth 
Parker, born July 5, 1793, daughter of an English 
officer, who, unable to look after his child, as her 
mother was dead, left her in the care of a relation or 
friend, Miss Elizabeth Kintzing, of Philadelphia, 
who adopted the little girl and brought her up. Miss 
Kintzing married Elisha Kane, of Philadelphia, the 
father of John Kane, the Arctic explorer. 

Waldron Blaau Post and Sarah Parker were 
married in Philadelphia by the Rev. Dr. Janeway. 

Waldron Blaau Post graduated from Columbia 
College in 18 10, when seventeen years old. It is said 
he was ready for college at twelve years of age. On 
leaving college he went into the wholesale drug busi- 
ness, in the firm of his father and uncles, JOTHAM, 
Joel and Allison Post. He retired from business 
at the age of twenty-five, but retained for a time an 
interest in the firm. 



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-1 Alfred Seton Post married Alice Lee 
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-4 Julia Elizabeth Brown married James 
Taylor Soutter. 

—3 Ellen Whipple Brown. 

2 Waldron Post Brown married Isabel 
Wright. 

— 1 Sarah Elizabeth Brown married 
Anson Wales Haid. 



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Caroline de Trobriand. 



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fourth branch. 

Waldron Blaau Post and Sarah Elizabeth 
Parker 

Had 

1. Abraham Kintzing Post, born September 28, 

1817; died September 14, 1845. Was mar- 
ried May 4, 1840, to Matilda Wickham 
Eaton, by Rev. Dr. Dewey. 

2. Julia Elizabeth Post, born May 4, 1819; 

died May 11, 1898. Was maried October 16, 
1845, by the Rev. Dr. Hutton, to James Mun- 
caster Brown, head of the banking firm o^ 
Brown Brothers, New York. 

3. Waldron Blaau Post, Jr., born November 4, 

1821; died December 17, 1858. Was mar- 
ried, June 6, 1844, by Rev. Mr. Bedell, to 
Euretta Barnwell Seton. 

4. Sarah Madeline Post, born August 22, 1824; 

died March 14, 1845. Married 23, 

1843, to Oliver Shepard. Left no issue. 

5. Elizabeth Kintzl\g Post, born June 10, 

1829; died January 21, 1833. 

6. Helen Louise Post, born June 17, 1834. Was 

married, October 14, 1856, by Rev. Dr. An- 
thon, to Rev. Edward Anthon. 



Post Family. 205 

FOURTH BRANCH. 



Sons of Waldron Blaau Post 

LEAVING descendants: 
I. ABR.AHAM KiNTZING POST. 

2. Waldron Blaau Post, Jr. 



2o6 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Abraham Kintzing Post. 

Born September 28, 1817; died September 11, 
1845. Married, May 4, 1840, by Rev. Dr. Dewey, 
to Matilda Wickham Eaton, who was born Septem- 
ber 30, 1821; died July 22, 1896. 

Matilda Eaton was a great niece of John Hancock, 
Governor of Massachusetts; President of the Pro- 
vincial Congress, and first signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. 

Abraham Kintzing Post did not go to college, 
his father wishing him to go into business. He died 
of pneumonia in his twenty-ninth year. Of three 
sons born to ABRAHAM KiNTZiNG POST, the eldest, 
Walter Eugene Post, born February 14, 1841, died 
October 13, 1842. The third son was a posthumous 
child and lived a very short time. The second son, 
Albert Kintzing Post, grew to manhood. 



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fourth branch. 

Albert Kintzing Post. 

Born January 5, 1843 ; died July 5, 1872. In 1845 
his father, ABRAHAM KlnTZING PosT, died. His 
mother married again, her second husband being the 
Count Armand de MaCarty. Business interests ob- 
liging M. de MaCarty to live in Matanzas, Cuba, 
he moved there with his wife and step-son. The lat- 
ter, however, did not remain in the island after he 
was old enough to go to school, but was sent to the 
school of Mr. Calthrop, at Bridgeport, in Connecti- 
cut. 

He entered Harvard College in 1859. While 
there he was identified with many of the under- 
graduate traditions of the time. At the "Burial of 
the Football," in i860, he acted as chaplain; he was 
poet of the Hasty Pudding Club, and his name ap- 
pears on several playbills of the Pudding theatricals. 
In 1862, in his junior year, at nineteen years of age^j 
he went to the war as a second lieutenant in the 45th 
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, which was 
raised in response to the call for nine months men. 
The regiment served in North Carolina, taking part 
in the battles of Kinston and Goldsboro and some 
lesser operations about Newbern, where it was sta- 
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Post Family. 209 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

After leaving the army he received his degree of 
A. B. from Harvard, and then went into business for 
a short time. His tastes, however, made art and 
literature more congenial occupations to him, and 
he devoted himself to cultivating his talents in those 
directions. He would undoubtedly have made a 
career in these pursuits had he not met an early and 
sudden death. 

On July 5, 1872, at Westhampton, Long Island, he 
was bathing in the surf when a young boy, carried 
ofT by the undertow, called for help. He swam to 
the rescue, but his efforts were unavailing and both 
were drowned. 

On January 25, 1866, ALBERT KiXTZiNG PoST 
married Marie Caroline Denis de Keredern de Tro- 
briand, daughter of General Comte de Trobriand, 
U. S. Army. The Trobriands belonged to the old 
nobility of Brittany, France. Their first ancestor. 
Miles Denis, Esquire), an Irishman, came with the 
English forces asked to help Jean de Montfort regain 
his crown of Brittany. When the cause was won, 
Miles Denis remained in Brittany, where he and his 
son, in 1384, received their titles of nobility and the 
fiefs of Keredern and Trobriand. Their descendants 
were hereditary members of the Parliament of Brit- 
tany, and were identified with the history of that 
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2IO Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

wars. During the wars of Napoleon two brothers 
became generals; one was chief of stafif of Marechal 
Lobeau, the other on the stafif of Marechal Davout. 
The former, General Joseph de Trobriand, for a 
most brilliant and daring action which saved the 
battle of Bautzen and turned it into a victory, was 
created Baron by Napoleon (his elder brother was 
Comte) ; the title of Baron was confirmed to Gen- 
eral Joseph de Trobriand by Louis XVIII. after the 
"Restauration." 

His son, Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern de 
Trobriand, inherited the title of Baron, and after- 
ward of Comte, from the elder branch, which be- 
came extinct. 

In 1 841 the Baron de Trobriand came to America 
to visit the.country, and met in New York Miss Mary 
Mason Jones, granddaughter of John Mason, 
founder and first president of the Chemical Bank, 
and daughter of Isaac Jones, second president of 
that institution. They were engaged and married in 
Paris, in 1843. For several years they lived in 
Venice, attached to the court of the exiled Bourbon 
King of France, Henri V. 

While in Venice, in 1845, October 15, their daugh- 
ter, Marie Caroline, was born. She was named after 
her godmother, Henri V.'s mother, the famous 



Post Family. 21 1 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Duchess de Berry, ex-Regent of France, who held 
the child in her arms during the whole ceremony of 
baptism, which took place in the private chapel of 
her palace, the Palazzo Vendramin. 

After a sojourn of two years in New York, from 
1848 to 1 85 1, and a return to France of several years, 
the Trobriands returned again to New York in 1854, 
to reside permanently; for when the war broke out, 
in 1861, the Baron de Trobriand became an Ameri- 
can citizen and offered his services to the Northern 
cause. He served with distinction during the war, 
took part in all the battles of the Army of the Poto- 
mac, and in the taking of Richmond, and retired 
with the rank of major-general. 

In 1867 he was offered the colonelcy of the 31st 
U. S. Infantry, and in 1869 that of the 13th U. S. 
Infantry, which he commanded until he was retired 
in 1879. During those years General de Trobriand 
commanded in Dakota, Montana, Utah, Wyoming 
and Louisiana. 

January 25, 1866, Marie Caroline de Trobriand 
was married to ALBERT KiNTZlXG POST, in Trinity 
Chapel, New York, by Rev. Edward Anthon. 

In 1875, at Ascension Church, by Rev. Dr. Mor- 
gan Di.Y, she was married to CHARLES ALFRED POST, 
descendant of JOEL POST, of the third branch. 



212 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Albert Kintzing Post and Marie Caroline de 
Trobriand 

Had 

1. Lina Beatrice Post (Lina de Trobriand 
Post), born November ii, 1866; married, Octo- 
ber I, 1891, to Hamilton Fish Webster, grandson of 
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Governor of New York and 
Secretary of State for eight years during President 
Grant's administration. 

2. Waldron Kintzing Post, born July 7, 1868; 
married Mary Lawrence Perkins. 

3. Regis Henri Post, born January 28, 1870; 
married CAROLYN BEATRICE Post. 



Post Family. 213 

FOURTH BRANCH. 



Sons of 
Albert Kixtzing Post; 

1. Waldron Kintzing Post. 

2. Regis Henri Post. 



214 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Waldron Kintzing Post. 

Waldron Kintzing Post, eldest son of Albert 
Kintzing Post, born July 7, 1868, in New York, 
at 23 Waverly Place, the residence of his great 
grandfather, Waldron Blaau PoST, with whom his 
parents were living. Attended St. Mark's School, 
Southborough, Massachusetts, there receiving the 
Founders' Medal, in 1884. Passed his examinations 
for Harvard when seventeen years of age, but at the 
request of his parents did not enter until 1886, and 
graduated with the class of 1890. While in 
college he wrote several plays performed by the 
"Dicky" and "Hasty Pudding" Clubs, and was Class 
Poet. After leaving college he spent a year in 
travel, going around the world. 

He studied law at the Law School of Columbia 
University from which he received the degree of 
LL.B. Was admitted to the bar, in New York, in 
1895; served a clerkship in the office of North, 
Ward & Wagstaff, and became junior partner of the 
successors of that firm, Ward, Hayden & Satterlee, 
in 1897. 

In 1893 he published "Harvard Stories," and in 
1899 he published "Smith Brunt, U. S. N.," a story 
of 1812. 



Post Family. 215 

FOURTH BRANCH . 

October 27, 1894, Waldron Kintzing Post was 
married, at Glen Cove, Long Island, to Mary Law- 
rence Perkins, youngest daughter of Charles Law- 
rence Perkins. 

Waldron Kintzing Post is a member of the 
Loyal Legion in hereditary right of his father. 
His home is at Bayport, Long Island. 



2i6 Post Family. 

fourth branch . 
Waldron Kintzing Post and Mary Perkins 

Had 

1. Charles Kintzing Post, born January n, 
1897, in New York. 

2. Mary Lawrence Post, born March 5, 1898, 
in New York. 

3. Langdon Ward Post, born April 10, 1899, in 
New York. 

4. Lina de Trobriand Post, born July 2, 1901, 
in Bayport, Long Island, N. Y. 

5. Elizabeth West Post, bom June 14, 1904, in 
Bayport, Long Island, N. Y. 



Post Family. 217 

fourth branch. 

Regis Henri Post. 

Regis Henri Post, second son of Albert Kint- 
ZING Post. Born January 28, 1870, at 23 Waverly 
Place, New York, the residence of his great grand- 
father, Waldron Blaau Post. 

Attended St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mas- 
sachusetts. Went to Harvard and graduated with 
the class of 1891. Wrote for the "Hasty Pudding 
Club" plays. Has his home in the country, at Bay- 
port, Long Island. 

November 8, 1898, REGIS PoST was elected mem- 
ber of the State Assembly to represent the second 
district, Suffolk County (Republican). 

November 8, 1899, was re-elected and served a 
second term. February, 1903, was appointed by 
President Roosevelt, Auditor of Porto Rico. 

August 10, 1904, Regis Henri Post was appoint- 
ed Secretary of State of Porto Rico. His promo- 
tion from Auditor to Secretary also carries with it 
the Governorship during the Governor's absence. 
In commenting on this appointment the New York 
Tribune of August i ith, I904,has the following par- 
agraph. "Washington, August loth — Regis H. Post 
who was appointed Secretary of Porto Rico to-day 
called at the White House this afternoon to say good- 



2i8 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

by to the President before his departure for the 
island. Mr. Post has been promoted from the Audi- 
torship of the Island. He is a young man of wealth 
who has gone into public life for the sake of 'doing 
something' and has made a fine record." 

On the day Regis Post called at the White House 
he took luncheon with President Roosevelt, the other 
guests being Secretary Taft (War) Secretary Shaw 
(Treasury) Postmaster General Payne and Ex-Sec- 
retary of the Navy Moody, now Attorney General. 

Regis Henri Post was married in New York, on 
March 6, 1895, by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, to CAROLYN 
Beatrice Post, his distant cousin, daughter of 
Henry Albertson Van Zo Post (of the Fourth 
Branch). 



Post Family. 219 

fourth branch . 

Regis Henri Post and Carolyn Beatrice Post 

Had 

Regis Henri Post, Jr., born February 17, 1897, 
at Bayport, Long Island. 

On July 24, 1903, when Rex, as he is called, was 
six years old, the following interesting event oc- 
curred: President Theodore Roosevelt, being in 
the neighborhood of Bayport for the day, visiting 
his uncle, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, heard that Mrs. 
Regis Post was ill. The President drove to Little- 
wood (the name of their place) to inquire for her, 
but Mrs. Post, feeling better that day, had gone out 
for a drive. From his nursery window Master Rex 
saw the visitor and called out: "Hallo! my muddie 
is out; who are you?" The answer came, "I am the 
President, and glad to meet you; tell your mother I 
called to inquire how she was, and am sorry not to 
see her." "All right," condescendingly called out 
the small highness. 



220 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 



WALDRON BLAAU POST, JR. 

Second Son of Waldron Blaau Post, 

AND HIS Descendants: 



-3 Alice Therese de Lassance. 
-2 Helen Post de Lassance. 



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1 Henry Morgan Post, died in 
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222 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Waldron Blaau Post, Jr. 

Waldron Blaau Post, Jr., second son of Wald- 
ron Blaau Post. Born November 4, 1821; died 
December 17, 1858. Married, June 6, 1844, by Rev. 
Mr. Bedell, to Euretta Barnwell Seton, daughter of 
Alfred Seton, of the Setons of Scotland. She was 
born in 1823; died September 9, 1856. They had 

1. Alfred Seton Post, born June 15, 1845; mar- 

ried Alice Lee Morgan. 

2. Sarah Elizabeth Post, born November 27, 

1846; married Benjamin Morris, April 2, 
1867. 

Had 

I. Euretta Post Morris, married Kenneth 
Macfarlane, who died 1902. 

II. Katharine Luqueer Morris. 

3. Euretta Barnwell Post, born May 13, 1849; 

married to Alfred de Lassance, of Pau, 
France. 

Had 

I. Alfred de Lassance, deceased. 

II. Helen Post de Lassance. 

III. Alice Therese de Lassance. 



Post Family. 223 

fourth branch. 

Alfred Seton Post. 

Alfred Seton Post, only son of Waldron Blaau 
Post, Jr., born June 15, 1845. 

He entered the United States Navy in 1862, and 
was appointed aide-de-camp to Admirals Charles H. 
Davis and David D. Porter. Entered the Naval 
Academy, at Annapolis, in 1863. Resigned in 1864 
and went to China, where he entered the firm of 
Russell & Co. Returned to New York in 1867. 

December 6, 1871, married Alice Lee Morgan, 
daughter of Henry Morgan and Cornelia Pell. 



224 Poj/ Family. 

fourth branch. 
Alfred Seton Post and Alice Lee Morgan 

Had 

1. Henry Morgan Post, born March lo, 1873; 

died November 17, 1877. 

2. Alice Lee Post, born October 24, 1875; mar- 

ried December 22, 1896 to Henry Cohvell 
Beadleston. 

3. Alfred Seton Post, Jr., born December 24, 

1876. 

4. Walter Blaau Post, born December 24, 1876, 

nvin brother of ALFRED Seton POST, Jr., died 
February 2, 1877. 

5. Ethel Maud Post, born August 30, 1878. 

6. Mabel Catherine Post, born May 22, 1880; 

married December 16, 1903, to George Gib- 
son McMurtry, Jr. 



Alfred SetOxN Post, Jr., born December 24, 1876. 
Graduated from St. Mark's School, Southborough, 
Massachusetts, ini895. Graduated from Yale Col- 
lege in 1898. 



Post Family. 225 

FOURTH BRANCH . 



Daughters of Waldron Blaau Post 
leaving issue : 

1. Julia Elizabeth Post. 

2. Helen Louise Post. 



226 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Julia Elizabeth Post 

Second child of Waldron Blaau Post, born May 
4, 1819; died May 11, 1898; married James Mun- 
caster Brown, head of the banking firm of Brown 
Bros. 

Had 

I. Sarah Elizabeth Brown, born September 24, 
1846; married, November 3, 1870, to Anson 
Wales Hard. 

Had 

I. James Muncaster Hard. 

H. Sarah Anson Hard, married William 
Beade Kirkland Taylor, of Baltimore. 

in. Julia Post Hard, married Augustine 
Jacquelin Smith. 

IV. Laura Warner Hard, married Henry 
von Lengerke Meyer. 

V. NellieWales Hard, married John Kane 
Mills. 

VI. Anson Wales Hard, Jr. 

VII. DeCourcy Lawrence Hard. 



Post Family. 22J 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

2. Waldron Post Brown, born January i6, 1848; 

married Isabel Wright. 

Had 

I. Waldron Post Brown, Jr. 

II. Isabella Oldfield Brown, died January, 
1902. 

III. James Muncaster Brown, married 
Rebecca Patterson Cooper. 

IV. Julia Post Brown, married Benjamin 
Clarke Fincke. 

V. John Wright Brown. 

VI. Fannie Wright Brown. 

VII. Ellen Granville Brown. 

3. Ellen Whipple Brown, born September, 1849. 

4. Julia Elizabeth Brown, born November 23, 

1852; married James Taylor Soutter. 

Had 

I. Ellen Muriel Beatrice Soutter, married 
to Dr. James Clifton Edgar. 

II. James Taylor Soutter. 



228 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Helen Louise Post. 

Sixth child of Waldron Blaau Post, born June 
17, 1834; married October 14, 1856, to Rev. Edward 
Anthon, who died September 15, 1903. 

Had 

1. Sarah Post Anthon, born August 1 1, 1857; first 

married to Alfred Renshaw Jones, January, 
1882; second marriage to Lewis Quentin 
Jones, September 3, 1892. Had by her first 
marriage 

Fanny Coster Jones, married Henry Spies 
Kip. 

2. Madeline Anthon, born April 21, 1859. 

3. Helen Louise Anthon, born April 16, 1866; 

married, June 10, 1891, to Charles Coster. 

Had 
Helen Marie Coster, died August 27, 1901. 

4. Emilia Corre Anthon, born October 29, 1868; 

died April 17, 1898. 

5. Edward Henry Anthon, born April 6, 1870; 

died June 17, 1896. 



Post Family. 229 

FOURTH BRANCH. 



JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 

Second Son and Fifth Child of Jotham II, 

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230 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

JOTHAM William Post, M. D. 

JOTHAM William Post, M. D., fifth child of 
JOTHAM Post II, born May 15, 1801 ; died May 31, 
1841. Married, January 7, 1824, by the Rev. Dr. 
Ware, to Angelina Thayer Byers, born in Boston, 
October 14, 1805; died, in New York, 1890; daugh- 
ter of William Turpin Thayer and Anna Brown, of 
Boston, and adopted by James Byers and Sarah 
Brown, her aunt. 

JOTHAM Post studied medicine, but did not prac- 
tise. Went into the wholesale importing drug busi- 
ness with his cousins and elder brother, WaldrON 
Blaau Post. 



Post Fmriily. 231 

FOURTH BRANCH. 



Sons of Jotham William Post, M. D. 
leaving descendants: 

1. James Byers Post. 

2. Edwin Frederick Post. 

3. Jotham William Post II. 



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FOURTH BRANCH. 

JoTHAM Post, M. D., and Angelina Thayer 

Byers 
Had 

1. James Byers Post, born, in New York, Sep- 

tember 9, 1826; died, in New Brighton, New 
York, August 31, 1902; married Caroline 
Tibbits How. 

2. Edwin Frederick Post, born in New York, 

September 17, 1828; died, in Chicago, Illi- 
nois, January 29, 1870; married Adeline Mit- 
chell. 

3. Charles William Post, died January i, 1844. 

4. Sarah Byers Post, born, in New York, June 

24, 1834; died, in Boston, Massachusetts, Feb- 
ruary 18, 1877; married, in New York, by 
Rev. Henry W. Bellows, December 16, 1859, 
to John Hooper Reed, of Boston, born Au- 
gust 3, 1827; died March 6, 1899. Two chil- 
dren died in infancy. 

5. Madeline Post, born, in New York, July 28, 

1836; married George Eliot Stone. 

6. Angelina Post, born, in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

August 16, 1837; married Casper Wistar 
Hodge. 

7. Jotham William Post H, born, in Brooklyn, 

New York, 1839; died at sea, April 30, 1877; 
married Eliza Chapman. 

8. Mary Ellen Post, died in infancy. 



Post Family. 235 

fourth branch. 

James Byers Post. 

First child of JOTHAM WILLIAM PoST, born, in 
New York, September 9, 1826; died, in New Brigh- 
ton, New York, August 31, 1902; married, in New 
York, by Rev. Samuel Osgood, December 17, 1850, 
to Caroline Tibbits How, born, in New York, Octo- 
ber 31, 1831; died, in New Brighton, New York, 
September 25, 1902; daughter of Calvin W. How, 
of New York. 

James Byers Post was corporal Company B, First 
Regiment Infantry, First Brigade, First Division, 
Volunteer Militia of Massachusetts, June 9, 1858. 
Sergeant Company B, Second Battalion Infantry, 
First Brigade, First Division, Volunteer Militia of 
Massachusetts, May 16, 1859. Lieutenant-colonel 
Ninety-fifth New York State Volunteers, March 6, 
1862. Honorably discharged, April 14, 1863. 

James Byers Post and Caroline How 
Had 
I. James Byers Post, Jr., born, in Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, September 5, 1854; married, in 



236 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Richmond Hill, New York, June 3, 1885, by 
Rev. William A. Matson and Rev. Joshua 
Kimber, to Katherine Marble Matson, born 
March 10, 1855, daughter of Rev. William 
A. Matson, of Richmond Hill, New York. 
Had 

I. EsTELLE Alma Post, born, in New 
Brighton, New York, April 5, 1886. 

n. William Matson Post, born, in Rich- 
mond Hill, New York, October 12, 1890. 

HI. James Byers Post HI, born, in Rich- 
mond Hill, New York, July 25, 1892. 

2. Charles Francis Post, born, in Boston, Mas- 
sachuttes, April 3, 1858; married, in New 
Brighton, New York, October 17, 1883, by 
Rev. William A. Matson and Rev. A. P. 
Stanley, to Lillian Hooker Brodhead, born, 
in Prescott, Canada, May 20, 1859, daughter 
of Edward C. Brodhead, of Boston. 
Had 

I. Elsie Post, born, in New Brighton, 
New York, March 13, 1885. 

n. Dorothy Margaret Post, born, in 
New Brighton, New York, August 29, 
1897. 



Post Family. 237 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

3. George Atwell Post, born, in Boston, Massa- 
chussetts, November 19, 1859; died in Richmond 
Hill, New York, April 9, 1901 ; married, in Phillips- 
burg, New Jersey, by Rev. Percy J. Roebottom, June 
16, 1887, to Emily Kent, born, in Phillipsburg, New 
Jersey, October 10, 1863, daughter of Joseph Charles 
Kent, of England. 

Had 

I. George Atwell Post, Jr., born, in New 
Brighton, March 29, 1889. 

n. Joseph Kent Post, born, in Stapleton, 
New York, March 8, 1892. 

HI. Caroline Post, born, in Richmond 
Hill, New York, November 19, 1897. 

IV. Emily Post, born, in Richmond Hill, 
New York, December 4, 1900. 

4. Madeline Post, born, in New York, March 

31, 1864. 

5. Caroline Post, born, in Astoria, New York, 

July 25, 1865. 

6. Angelina Post, born, in New York, October 

3, 1872. 



238 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Edwin Frederick Post. 

Second child of JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 
born, in New York, September 17, 1828; died, in 
Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 1870; married, in New 
York, March 8, 1852, by Rev. James Alexander, to 
Adeline Mitchell, daughter of Samuel Latham Mit- 
chell and Anne Kneeland, of New York, born De- 
cember 10, 1 83 1. 

Edwin Frederick Post and Adeline Mitchell 

Had 

1. Samuel Latham Mitchell Post, born, in 
New York, December 25, 1853 ; died, in New York, 
February 20, 1891 ; married, in New York, October 
25, 1880, by Rev. Henry W. Bellows, to Mary Louisa 
Allen, born December 16, 1854, daughter of Wil- 
liam B. Allen and Harriet Bellows, of New York. 

Had 

Mary Allen Post, born, in New York, 
October 1 1, 1883. 

2. Edwin Frederick Post, Jr., born, in New 

York, October 10, 1855; married, at Quogue, 
New York, September 21, 1889, by Caspar 
Wistar Hodge, D. D., to Evelyn Goldthwaite 
Baker, born May i, i860, daughter of Francis 
Baker and Ester G. Barrett, of New York. 



Post Family. 239 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Alice Adeline Post, born, in Astoria, New 
York, June 3, i860; married, in New York, 
by Rev. John Hall, December 15, 1883 to 
William Berryman Scott, of Princeton, New 
Jersey, born February 12, 1858. 

Had 

I. Charles Hodge Scott, born in Prince- 
ton, December 16, 1884. 

n. Adeline Mitchell Scott, born, in 
Princeton, July 30, 1886. 

HI. Mary Blanchard Scott, born, in 
Heidelberg, September i, 1888. 

IV. Anne Mitchell Scott, born, in Prince- 
ton, November 21, 1890; died, in Prince- 
ton, September 30, 1892. 

V. Sarah Post Scott, born, in Princeton, 
March 3, 1894. 

VI. Hugh Lennox Scott, born, in Prince- 
ton, March 3, 1894; died, in Princeton, 

April 18, 1894. 

VII. Angelina Thayer Scott, born, in 
Princeton, November 27, 1895. 



240 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

4. Sarah Reed Post, born in New York, Septem- 
ber 21, 1862; married in New York, by Rev. 
John Hall, October 30, 1884, to George Ho- 
ratio Allen (born September 21, 1852), of 
New York, brother of Mary Louisa Allen, 
wife of Samuel L. M. Post. 

Had 

I. Francis Post Allen, born, in New York, 
August 16, 1885. 

n. Mitchell Allen, born, in New York, 
March 27, 1887. 

HI. Langdon Allen, born, in Orange, 
New Jersey, May 26, 1891. 

IV. Alice Post Allen, born, in Concord, 
Massachusetts, March 11, 1894. 



Post Family. 241 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

JoTHAM William Post II. 

Seventh child and third son of JOTHAM WILLIAM 
Post, M. D., born, in Brooklyn, New York, January 
II, 1839; died, at sea, April 30, 1877. Went to Mr. 
Churchill's Military School, at Sing Sing, and dur- 
ing the war joined the Twenty-second Regiment, N. 
G. N. Y. ; served in its campaign of 1862-63, was 
quartermaster-sergeant and quartermaster; date of 
commission, October 25, 1862. 

Married, in Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1866, 
by Rev. John H. Morrison, to Eliza Chapman, 
daughter of Jonathan Chapman and Lucinda 
Dwight, of Boston. 

Jotham William Post and Eliza Chapman 

Had 

1. Eliza Chapman Post, born, in New York, 

January 27, 1867. 

2. Jotham William Post III, died in infancy. 

3. John Reed Post, born July 15, 1872; married, 

in Boston, Massachusetts, by Rev. Paul Revere 
Frothingham, June 5, 1902, to Mabel Davis, 
born March, 1876, daughter of Joseph E. 
Davis, Worcester, Massachusetts. 

4. Helen Post, died in infancy. 



242 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH 



Daughters of Jotham William Post, M. D., 

LEAVING issue: 

1. Madeline Post. 

2. Angelina Post. 



Post Family. 243 

fourth branch. 
Madeline Post. 

Fifth child of JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 
born, in New York, July 28, 1836; married, in New 
York, April 29, 1863, by Rev. Henry W. Bellows, 
to George Eliot Stone, of New York, born January 
17, 1822; died January 20, 1898. 

Had 

1. William Eliot Stone, born, in New York, Sep- 

tember 3, 1864; married, in West New Brigh- 
ton, New York, January 29, 1890, by Rev. 
Pascal narrower, to Helen Purvis Key, born 
November 25, 1867, daughter of Henry Har- 
wood Key and Anna Morrill Knapp, of An- 
napolis, Maryland. 

2. Madeline Post Stone, born, in New York, Au- 

gust 16, 1867. 

3. Frederick Sigourney Stone, born, in Princeton, 

New Jersey, July 4, 1871. 

4. Herman Foster Stone, born, in New York, No- 

vember 3, 1874. 



244 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 
Angelina Post. 

Sixth child of JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 
born, in Brooklyn, New York, August i6, 1837; mar- 
ried, in New York, October 20, 1869, by Rev. Henry 
W. Bellows, to Caspar Wistar Hodge, D. D., of 
Princeton, New Jersey (born February 21, 1830; 
died September 27, 1891 ) . The first wife of Caspar 
Wistar Hodge was HARRIET Terry Post, daughter 
of Richard Bayley Post I, of the Second Branch. 

Had 

1. Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr., born, in Princeton, 

September 22, 1870; married, in Princeton, 
November 23, 1897, t>y Rev. George T. Pur- 
vis, to Sarah Henry, of Princeton. 

Had 

Lucy Maxwell Hodge, born, in Princeton, 
March 5, 1902. 

2. Angelina Post Hodge, born, in Princeton, No- 

vember 15, 1871 ; married, in Princeton, June 
5, 1900, by Francis Hodge D. D., to Malcolm 
MacLaren, of Princeton (born June 21, 
1869). 

Had 

Malcolm MacLaren, Jr., born, in London, 
June 26, 1901. 



Post Family. 245 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

3. Mary Blanchard Hodge, born, in Princeton, 

February 2, 1874; married, in Princeton, 
June 7, 1894, by Francis Hodge, D. D., to 
William Francis Magie, of Princeton (born 
December 14, 1858). 

4. Sarah Madeline Hodge, born, in Princeton, 

December 29, 1876. 



246 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH 



EDWIN POST, 

Third Son and Sixth Child of Jotham II, 

AND his Children. 



1—9 Henry Burnett Post. 




— 1 Regis Henri Poet., Jr 



7 Maud Evelyn Post, died in infancy, 
6 Garrard Post, died without issue. 



i Bruce Price Post. 



1 Edwin Main Post, Jr. 



4 Nathalie McLean Post. 
■3 AJbertson Van Zo Post. 



Norreys Jephson O'Conor, 



—1 Laura Josephine Post. 



George Griswold, rv. 



-1 Ellen Post married Philip AUen. 
No issue. 



2 Philip Allen Post, died without issue. 



1 Morgan Gibbes Post, died without 

issue. 



248 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 
Edwin Post. 

Third son of JOTHAM POST II and Madeline 
Blaau, born June 12, 1804; died June 3, 1888. 
Graduated from Columbia College in 1821. 
Was married first, on May 12, 1824, in Trinity 
Church, by Rev. Mr. Berrian, to Lucretia Ann Main 
(sister of Austin Main, who married Emily^ daugh- 
ter of Allison Post, Fifth Branch). His second 
marriage was with Cornelia Davis. No issue by sec- 
ond marriage. 

Edwin Post was a celebrated sportsman and shot. 



Post Family. 249 

fourth branch. 

Edwin Post and Lucretia Ann Main 
Had 

1. Ellen Post, married Philip Allen, of Provi- 

dence, Rhode Island. She died November 
16, 1847, leaving no issue. 

2. Edwin Augustus Post, born March 10, 1829; 

married Margaret Oliver Gibbes. 

3. Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, born May 

16, 1832; married first, Maria Farquhar Tay- 
lor; second, Caroline McLean. 

4. Lucretia Main Post, born December 16, 

1833 ; died May 18, 1873. Was the first wife 
of William T. Moore, son of Clement C. 
Moore, the author of "The Night Before 
Christmas." No issue. 

5. Mary Post, died in infancy. 

6. Ellen Allen Post, born April 15, 1848. 



250 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH 



Sons of 

Edwin Post 

leaving descendants : 

1. Edwin Augustus Post. 

2. Henry Albertson Van Zo Post. 



Post Family. 251 

fourth branch. 

Edwin Augustus Post. 

Edwin Augustus Post, born March 10, 1829, 

was graduated a lawyer from Butler & Evarts' office 

in 1850; practised until his marriage. Afterwards 

had no particular occupation, but was at one time 

one of the Dock Commissioners of the City of New 

York. 

May 16, 1853, Edwin Post married Margaret 
Oliver Gibbes, daughter of Robert Morgan Gibbes, 
of South Carolina, granddaughter of Governor 
Gibbes, of South Carolina. Her family record is 
in "Burke's Peerage and Landed Gentry." Her 
mother, Emily Oliver, was a daughter of Robert 
Oliver, of Baltimore, Maryland. 



252 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 
Edwin Augustus Post and Margaret Oliver 

GiBBES 

Had 

1. Morgan Gibbes Post, born February 20, 1854; 

died December 9, 1888. Graduated from 
Harvard University. 

2. Philip Allen Post, born November, 1855; 

died December 27, 1875, while a student at 
Harvard University. 

3. Emily Oliver Post, married, May 6, 1886, to 

George Griswold. 

Had 
George Griswold IV, born October 7, 1896. 

4. Edwina M. Post. 



Post Family. 253 

fourth branch. 

Henry Albertson Van Zo Post. 

Born, in New York City, May 16, 1832. Went 
to M. Churchill's Military School, at Sing Sing, 
New York; from there he went to the "Novelty Iron 
Works," Brooklyn, where he learned his profession 
of mechanical engineer. He was for eleven years 
connected with the firm as expert engineer. 

In 1 86 1 he was mustred in as Lieutenant-Colonel, 
Second U. S. Sharpshooters, and on January i, 1862, 
became Colonel of the same regiment. He was 
wounded at the battle of Antietam, and granted 
leave of absence on surgeon's certificate of disability, 
September 23, 1862, and upon expiration of its ex- 
tension rejoined on or about November 6, and 
commanded his regiment in the Army of the Poto- 
mac, until ordered on detached service, November 
II, 1862, by Special Orders of that date from Head- 
quarters Army of the Potomac. He was honorably 
discharged upon the tender of his resignation, to date 
November 16, 1862. In 1864 he went to Cincinnati 
as a partner in Perkins, Livingston & Post. Estab- 
lished there a large manufacturing business of rail- 
road supplies as "POST & Co." In 1870 he returned 
to New York, and later established "PoST, Martin & 
Co." and "PoST & Pomeroy." 

Henry Albertson Van Zo Post was twice mar- 
ried, his first wife was Maria Farquhar Taylor. She 
was born February 25, 1832; married H. A. V. PoST, 



254 -Po-^' Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

November 22, 1853, in Calvary Church, New York. 
Died in Newport, Rhode Island, July 27, i860. 

Henry Post's second wife was Caroline Burnet 
McLean, of Cincinnati, daughter of General Na- 
thaniel McLean, and granddaughter of Justice John 
McLean, of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Caroline Burnet McLean was also a granddaugh- 
ter of Justice Burnet, of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 
and United States Senator from that State. She was 
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 14, 1843. Was mar- 
ried to H. A. V. Post, in Glendale, Ohio, by the Rev. 
Frank L. B. Robbins, October 16, 1865. 

The father of Mrs. PoST, General McLean, son 
of Hon. John McLean, of Ohio, Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born 
February 2, 1818. At sixteen years of age he 
graduated at Augusta College, Kentucky, went im- 
mediately to Harvard College, where he passed 
through the studies of the Senior Class as a resident 
graduate; then entered the Law School. After com- 
pleting this course, he returned to his home in Ohio 
and commenced the practice of law in Cincinnati. 

At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, 
under orders received from General Fremont, he 
commenced the organization of the Seventy-fifth 
Ohio Regiment; he was commissioned its colonel 
September 18, 1861. In January, 1862, he was or- 
dered with his regiment to West Virginia, and com- 



Post Family. 255 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

manded it personally in all its service under Generals 
Milroy, Schenck and Fremont, up to and through 
the battle of Cross Keys, when he was promoted to 
the command of a brigade consisting of four Ohio 
regiments. He commanded this brigade through 
the campaign of General Pope in Virginia, through 
the second battle of Bull Run, and the retreat upon 
Washington. On the 29th of November, 1862, he 
was commissioned as brigadier-general. He re- 
mained in the Army of the Potomac in command of 
a division in active service under Generals McClel- 
lan, Burnside and Hooker, and through the battle of 
Chancellorsville. He then asked to be relieved, and 
was ordered to report to General Burnside in the 
Department of the Ohio. When General Burnside 
was relieved by General Schofield, he was ordered 
to the command of a brigade in the field in Tennes- 
see, where he joined the corps of General Schofield 
and served actively under General Sherman. After 
the battles of Kenesaw and Lost Mountain, he was 
ordered to Kentucky and placed in command of a 
district. He was subsequently ordered to Tennes- 
see, when our army under General Thomas was 
pushed up the Tennessee River, when the command 
was ordered to North Carolina. From Fort Fisher 
they formed a junction with General Sherman. 
When the surrender of Lee ended the war, General 



256 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

McLean sent in his resignation and returned to his 
home, Glendale, near Cincinnati, Ohio. During 
the whole war of four years General McLean was 
off duty only thirty days. 

General McLean was the son of Judge John Mc- 
Lean, born in Morris County, New Jersey, 1785; 
died, in Cincinnati, April, 1861. In 1812 Judge 
McLean was elected to Congress; re-elected in 18 14. 
18 16 resigned to accept a seat on the supreme bench 
of Ohio. 1822 Commissioner of Land Office. 1823 
Postmaster-General under President Monroe, and 
continued through the administration of John 
Quincy Adams. 1829 resigned as Postmaster-Gen- 
eral, declined War and Navy Department. Same 
year was appointed Associate Justice Supreme 
Court of the United States, which position he held 
until his death, over thirty- two years. 

In 1848, and in 1852 and 1856, he was prominently 
spoken of for President of the United States. In the 
last-named year he received a formidable support in 
the convention, and came near, on the first ballot, 
beating Colonel Fremont. Had it not been for his 
advanced age he would probably have been nomi- 
nated for President instead of Abraham Lincoln by 
the Chicago convention. 

Vol. 10, Am. Cyclopedia, has an account of his 
life; also other histories. 



Post Family. 257 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

The mother of Caroline Burnet McLean (wife of 
H. A. V. Post), was the first wife of General Na- 
thaniel McLean, Caroline Thew Burnet, daughter 
of Judge Jacob Burnet. 

Judge Jacob Burnet was an eminent lawyer, au- 
thor of the first Constitution of the State of Ohio, a 
Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and a United 
States Senator during the administration of President 
Jackson. 

A noteworthy incident in the history of Judge 
Burnet's Senatorship occurred during the debate, as 
it was called, between Daniel Webster and Colonel 
Hayne, of South Carolina. Mr. March, of Boston, 
in his reminiscences of Congress, published in 1850, 
states that during the debate there was a case of 
importance on argument before the Supreme Court 
in which Mr. Webster was retained as counsel. 
Compelled to watch its progress, he had not been 
able to command more than an occasional presence 
in the Senate Chamber, and requested that the fur- 
ther consideration of the resolution might be post- 
poned till the following Monday. The request was 
refused by Colonel Hayne, who in evident agitation 
and excitement demanded that the debate should go 
on without postponement. Colonel Hayne was to 
make his second speech the following day. Mr. 
Webster, after a moment's consultation with Judge 



258 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Burnet, in which the latter consented to take notes 
of Colonel Hayne's speech for him, then rose, and, 
to use the words of a distinguished member of Con- 
gress from the Southern State who was present on 
the occasion, his person seemed to become taller and 
larger, his chest expanded, and his eyeballs dilated. 
Folding his arms in a composed, firm and most ex- 
pressive manner, he exclaimed: "Let the discussion 
proceed; I am ready." 

In 1850 the City of Boston ordered from Healy 
a picture which now hangs in Faneuil Hall repre- 
senting Mr. Webster replying to Colonel Hayne in 
the U. S. Senate. The artist, on being asked why 
he had given so prominent a position in the fore- 
ground to the portrait of Judge Burnet, replied that 
it was Mr. Webster's special request, on account, not 
only of their long friendship, but also because Judge 
Burnet had at his request taken notes of Colonel 
Hayne's speech, and from those notes chiefly he had 
composed his speech in reply. In this picture is also 
represented Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court, 
and Mrs. Burnet is represented seated in the gallery 
— so Mrs. Post has two grandfathers and a grand- 
mother painted in that picture. 

It may be added here, as a matter of interest, that 
Mrs. H. A. V. Post is descended from Oliver Crom- 
well in the following direct line: 



Post Family. 259 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Elizabeth, born 1629, daughter of Oliver Crom- 
well, married Sir John Claypole. Their son came 
to America, married and lived in Philadelphia. His 
daughter was married to David Chambers, a de- 
scendant of the Chalmers of Scotland; their daugh- 
ter, Rebecca, was married to Robert Wallace; their 
daughter, Rebecca, was married to Judge Jacob Bur- 
net; their daughter, Caroline Thew, was married to 
Nathaniel McLean; their daughter, Caroline Bur- 
net, was married to HENRY Albertson Van Zo 
Post. 

Henry Albertson Van Zo Post and Maria 
Farquhar Taylor 

Had 

1. Laura Josephine Post, born September 23, 

1854. 

2. Maria Jephson Post, born November 14, 

1855; married; November 15, 1881, in Christ 
Church, to John Christopher O'Connor. 

Had 

Norreys Jephson O'Conor. 



26o Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, by his 
second marriage with Caroline Burnet Mc- 
Lean, 

Had 

1. Albertson Van Zo Post, born, in Cincinnati, 

July 28, 1866. Graduated from Columbia 
College School of Mines as a Civil Engine- 
er, 1889. Was one of the original members 
of Troop A. Then became captain in the 
Twelfth Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and with 
his regiment volunteered for the Spanish- 
American war, summer of 1898. 

2. Nathalie McLean Post, born, in Cincinnati, 

November 3, 1868. 

3. Edwin Main Post, born, in Cincinnati, Janu- 

ary 6, 1870; married Emily Bruce Price. 

4. Garrard Post, born, in New York, November 

12, 1871; died, December 6, 1886. 

5. Maud Evelyn Post, born January 17, 1875; 

died February 6, 1875. 

6. Carolyn Beatrice Post, born at Babylon, 

Long Island, March 6, 1876; married, March 
6, 1895, to Regis Henri Post. (See Fourth 
Branch, descendants of Waldron Blaau 
Post.) 

7. Henry Burnet Post, born, at Babylon, Long 

Island, June 15, 1885. 



Post Family. 261 

fourth branch. 

Edwin Main Post. 
Edwin Main Post, second son of Henry Al- 
BERTSON Van Zo Post, was born January 6, 1870. 
Graduated at Columbia University in the class 
of 1892. He is a broker. Married, at Tuxedo, 
New York, June i, 1892, Emily Bruce Price, daugh- 
ter of the distinguished architect, Bruce Price. 

Had 

1. Edwin Main Post, Jr., born June 2, 1893. 

2. Bruce Price Post, born February 9, 1895. 



262 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH 



Daughters of Jotham Post II 

LEAVING issue: 

1. Julia Lynch Post. 

2. Eleanor Post. 

3. Nancy Elizabeth Mary Post. 

4. Magdalen Rachel Post. 



Post Family. 263 

fourth branch. 

Julia Lynch Post. 

Born February 16, 1797; died December 7, 1878; 
married, May 15, 1815, by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, to 
James D'Wolf. 

Had 

Juliana D'Wolf, married Robert Livingston Cut- 
ting. 

Had 

1. Robert Livingston Cutting, married Judith 

Carter Moale, of Baltimore. 
Had 
L Robert Livingston Cutting, 
n. James D'Wolf Cutting. 

2. James D'Wolf Cutting, died unmarried. 

3. Walter Cutting, married Maria Center Pome- 

roy, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 
Had 
L Juliana Cutting. 

IL Mary Pomeroy Cutting, married Ar- 
thur Cumnock. 

HL Walter Cutting. 

IV. Madeline Cutting, married Dr. Rus- 
sell Aubra Hibbs. 

4. Julia Cutting, died unmarried. 



264 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Eleanor Post. 

Born April 19, 1799; died April 26, 1872. First 
married, March 9, 1820, by Rev. Dr. Romeyn, to 
Francis L. B. D'Wolf. Second married, December, 
1839, by Rev. Dr. Hawks, to John Whipple, of 
Providence, Rhode Island. 

Had 

1. James D'Wolf, by first marriage. He married 

Ellen Dabney. 

Had 
I. Frank L. B. D'Wolf, dead. 
n. James D'Wolfe. 
HI. Ellen D'Wolf, married. 

IV. Henry D'Wolf. 

V. Sherman D'Wolf. 

2. John Whipple, by second marriage. He mar- 

ried Elizabeth Swann, daughter of Governor 
Svvann, of Maryland. 
Had 

I. John Whipple, Jr., born July 15, 1865; 
married Florence Dibrell. 

II. Elizabeth Sherlock Whipple, born 
July 20, 1867; married Pemberton Hare 
Powell. 



Post Family. 265 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

III. Eleanor Whipple, born January 2, 
1870; married Benjamin Weaver. 

IV. Thomas Swann Whipple, born April 
29, 1872. 

V. Mary Carter Whipple, born March 
27, 1873. 

VI. Jane Byrd Whipple, born August 13, 
1876. 

VII. Gwendolyn Whipple, born May 
29, 1883. 

VIII. Shirley Carter Whipple, born Sep- 
tember 25, 1884. 



266 Post Family. 

fourth branch. 

Nancy Elizabeth Mary Post. 

Born October 8, 1806; died February 21, 1895; 
married, on December 19, 1826, by the Rev. Dr. 
Wainwright, to Bernard Rhinelander. 

Had 

1. Emily Catharine Rhinelander, married Dr. 

John Watson, June 29, 1861. Died without 
issue. 

2. Charles Edward Rhinelander, married to Ma- 

tilda Cotheal, June 7, 1878. 

3. Adelaide Rhinelander, died in infancy. 

4. Bernard Rhinelander. 

5. Ellen Lucretia Rhinelander, married Anson 

Van Horn Leroy, March 24, 1858. 
Had 
Ellen Rhinelander Le Roy, died in infancy. 

6. Laura Virginia Rhinelander. 

7. Gertrude Rhinelander, married Francis Wil- 

liam Waldo, June 6, 1876. 
Had 
Rhinelander Waldo. 



Post Family. 267 

fourth branch. 

Magdalen Rachel Post. 

Born December 14, 1810; died January 29, 1841. 
Was married, July 27, 1829, by Rev. Dr. Wain- 
wright, to Isaac Gibson. 

Had 

1. Julia Gibson, married Melancthon Woolsey 

Borland, of Boston; she died April 13, 1901. 

Had 

I. James Lloyd Borland, died in infancy. 

n. Madeline Borland, married to Louis 
M'Lane Tififany, M. D., of Baltimore. 
Died leaving 

a. Katherine M'Lane Tififany, mar- 
ried Gordon Abbot, of Boston. 

b. Louis M'Lane Tififany, died in 
infancy. 

in. John Borland, married to Constance 
Evelyn Rives, of New York. Died leav- 
ing, 

a. Maud Rives Borland. 

b. John Borland. 

c. Ella Aufrere Borland. 

2. Madeline Gibson. Married John Nelson Bor- 

land, M. D., of Boston. She died April, 
1900. 



268 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

Had 
I. Rebecca Nelson Borland, married 
James Jackson, of Boston. 
Had 

a. Madeline Jackson, married 
George Cabot Lee, Jr., of Boston. 

b. James Jackson. Married on June 
27th, 1904, Rachel Brooks, daugh- 
ter of Shepard Brooks, of Boston. 

c. Rebecca Borland Jackson, mar- 
ried Robert Haydock Hallowell, 
of Boston. 

n. Julia Borland, married Colonel Fran- 
cis Lee Higginson, of Boston. 

Had 

a. Mary Cabot Higginson, married 
Philip Shelton Sears, of Boston. 

b. Francis Lee Higginson, Jr. 

c. Juliet Higginson. 

d. Barbara Higginson. 

IH. John Nelson Borland, married Alice 
Haven, of New York. 
Had 

a. Georgette Borland. 

b. Alice Borland. 

c. Madeline Borland. 



Post Family. 269 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

IV. William Gibson Borland, married 
Lucy Sturgis Codman, of Boston. 
Had 

a. John Nelson Borland, born De- 
cember 29, 1898. 

b. Susan Codman Borland, born 
August 24, 1900. 

c. Rosamond Borland, born August 
29, 1903. 

3. Edwin Post Gibson, married Eliza Pollock 
Dodge, of New York. 
Had 
I. William Maitland Gibson, married Sara 
Laughlin Messimer. 
Had 

a. William Maitland Gibson, Jr., 
deceased. 

b. Madeline Gibson. 

c. Max Agassiz Gibson. 

n. Clara Gibson, married Henri Lavan- 
chy, of Zurich, Switzerland. 
Had 
a. Magda Lavanchy. 

in. John Travers Gibson, married Mary 

Wilson. 

Had 
a. Alice Gibson. 



270 Post Family. 

FOURTH BRANCH. 

4. William Borrowe Gibson, died unmarried dur- 

ing the Civil War. Was assistant surgeon on 
Admiral Farragut's ship, "Hartford," and 
treated by the Admiral as a personal friend, 
who had him at his table instead of at the 
mess. When William Gibson died, Admiral 
Farragut wrote to his sister, Mrs. J. N. Bor- 
land, asking to see her, as he wished to ex- 
press in person his sense of loss at his friend's 
early death. 

5. Mary Ellen Gibson, married William Jafifray, 

of New York. 

Had 
I. Isaac Gibson JafTray. 
n. William JafTray. 




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Post Family. 271 



FIFTH BRANCH. 



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BORN 1779, 

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Elizabeth Mary Swan married Capt. Horatio McKay. 
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—6 Edward Henry Swan, Jr. , married Catharine S. Paris. 
-5 Frederick Henry Swan, died in childhood. 
-4 Emily Swan married Edward Lentilhon. 
-3 Allison Post Swan married IVlary U. Paris. 

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-1 Elizabeth Floyd Post, died in chUdhood. 



Post Family. 273 

fifth braxch. 

Allison Post. 

Born January 25, 1779; died March 18, 1848; 
married, July 5, 18 12, Elizabeth Floyd, whose sister. 
Alma, was the second wife of ALLISON'S brother, 
Joel, and whose aunt, Abigail, married ALLISON'S 
eldest brother, WILLIAM. Elizabeth Post died April 
4, 1869. 

Allison Post was born and lived in New York. 
In r8i2 he bought a farm at Nissequogue, Long 
Island, but in 1816 sold it and returned to New York 
and went into the wholesale drug business with his 
brothers. The firm was JOEL and JOTHAM and AL- 
LISON Post, and afterwards JOTHAM, ALLISON and 

Waldron Blaau Post. 



274 Post Family. 

fifth branch. 

Allison Post and Elizabeth Floyd 
Had 

1. Elizabeth Floyd Post, born April 17, 1813; 

died April 2, 1817. 

2. William Floyd Post, born November ig, 

1 8 14; died May 15, 1844. He was married; 
no issue. 

3. Emily Post, born June 11, 18 16; died July 28, 

1892, at Dinard. France; married Austin 
Main. 

4. Alma Post, born January 8, 1818; died July 

5, 1824. 

5. Elizabeth Mary Post, born April 12, 1819; 

died March 9, 1824. 

6. Jotham Post, born March 19, 1821 ; died, in 

Paris, August 21, 1877; married Josephine 
Bridge. 

7. Caroline Post, born April 13, 1824; died 

March 11, i860; married Benjamin L. Swan. 

8. Amelia Post, born August 6, 1826; died June 

5, 1830. 

9. Julia Strong Post, born September 23, 1828; 

married Edward Swan. 

10. Allison Post, born August 18, 1832; died 

February 17, 1835. 



Post Family. 275 

FIFTH BRANCH. 

JoTHAM Post, M. D. 

JoTHAM Post, M. D., sixth child of Allison 
Post, was born March 19, 1821; died, in Paris, 
France, August 21, 1877. Graduated at Columbia 
College 1840. Graduated College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in 1845, *^hen for two years studied in Paris. 
He did not subsequently practice. He married 
Josephine Bridge. 

Jotham Post and Josephine Bridge 
Had 

1. Emily Elizabeth (Lizzie) Post, unmarried. 

2. Adeline Emma Post, married to Jacques 

Reubell ; died leaving no issue. 

3. Pauline Post, married to Francis McNiel 

Bacon, Jr. 

Had 

I. Pauline Post Bacon, born September 29, 
1898. 

n. Francis McNiel Bacon HI, born May 
14, 1900. 



276 Post Family. 

fifth branch. 

Emily Post. 

Daughter of Allisox Post, born June 11, 18 16; 
died July 28, 1892 ; married to Austin Ledyard Sands 
Main, November 4, 1835. 

Had 
I. Lucretia Ann Main, born August 23, 1836; 
married to William H. Brydon. 
These had 
Emily Ann Brydon, married to Reginald Vil- 
liers Forbes. 

Caroline Post. 

Daughter of ALLISON POST, born April 13, 1824; 
died March 11, i860; married Benjamin L. Swan. 

Had 

1. Allison Post Swan, died in infancy. 

2. William Lincoln Swan, married — — Thurston. 

3. Caroline Emily Swan, married Thomas S. 

Young. 

4. Benjamin L. Swan, died in infancy. 



Post Family. 277 

fifth branch. 

Julia Strong Post. 

Daughter of ALLISON POST, born September 23, 
1828; married Edward Swan, who died August 30, 
1903. 

Had 

1. Edward Henry Swan, died in childhood. 

2. Julia Post Swan, married Rev. William Irvin. 

3. Allison Post Swan, married Mary U. Paris. 

4. Emily Swan, married Edward Lentilhon ; died 

January 3, 1890. 

5. Frederick. Henry Swan, died in childhood. 

6. Edward Henry Swan, Jr., married Catherine 

S. Paris. 

7. Charles Fearing Swan. 

8. Theodore Augustus Swan. 

9. Elizabeth Mary Swan, married Capt. Horatio 

McKay. 

10. Harriet Stone Swan. 

11. Charlotte Caroline Swan. 

12. Robert Otis Swan. 



278 -Po^/ Family. 



APPENDICES. 



Post Family. 279 

Appendix A. 

Detached facts relating to the POSTE family in Eng- 
land from notes aforesaid. 

Registry of Wills, Canterbury, Kent, England. 

George Post or Poste, of Ulcombe (Co. Kent), 
died 1502. 

A. D. 1559, JULIANE Poste, of Tenderden, widow, 
dated 1558, Liber 34, quire 3. Testatri.x mentions 
Edward Poste her son, Thomas Poste her son, 
Stephen Poste her son, whom she appoints execu- 
tors. Proved 30 Jany. 1559, o.s. 

1871, i6th April Sunday. "It is with regret 
we announce the death of the Rev. Beale PoSTE, 
LL.B., which took place on Sunday last, at his resi- 
dence, Bydew's Place, near Maidstone. Born in 
1793, of an old Kentish family, he was son of WIL- 
LIAM Poste, Esq., one of the Four Pleaders of the 
city of London, and grandson of WILLIAM PoSTE, 
Esq., of Hayle Place, near Maidstone, and Mary, his 
wife, daughter and coheiress of Richard Beale, Esq., 
likewise of Hayle Place, which property had been 
held by the Beales for several generations. The de- 
ceased gentleman was educated at Trinity College, 
Cambridge, where he attained to the degree of LL.B. 
at an unusually early age. After spending some time 
on the continent he returned to England and took 
holy orders, and was some years curate of High 



280 Post Family. 

APPENDIX A . 

Halden, and Milsted, in this county, but never held 
preferment in the church. He afterwards came to 
reside on his property at Bydews and occupied him- 
self much in antiquarian studies and researches, and 
was intimately associated with a number of anti- 
quarians of note, more especially with those resident 
in and near Maidstone, of whom we may mention the 
late Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, Mr. Charles, 
Mr. Clement Smythe, Mr. Pretty, the late curator 
of the Museum, and Mr. John Newington Hughes, 
all of whom have passed away before him. Mr. 
POSTE was an early member of the Archaeological 
Association of Great Britain, and contributed several 
learned papers to their journal; and on the establish- 
ment of the Kent Archaeological Society he took an 
active part in its foundation, and regularly attended 
the meetings of the Council, and one of his last pa- 
pers was contributed to the society's journal, ArchiE- 
ologia Cantiana, on the site of ancient Roman Maid- 
stone, which contains a mass of valuable and inter- 
esting information respecting the early history of the 
town. In 1847 ^Jr. PoSTE published a valuable 
"History of the Church and College of All Saints, 
Maidstone," which was followed in 1853 by "Bri- 
tannic Researches, or new facts and Rectifications of 
Ancient British History." Mr. PoSTE married in 
early life Mary Jane, daughter of the late John 
Cousens, Esq., of Westbourne, who died two years 



Post Family. 281 

APPENDIX A. 

since and has left a family. His eldest surviving 
son is Mr. Edward Poste, Fellow of Oriel College, 
O.xford, one of the principal examiners to the Civil 
Service Commissioners, himself an author. 

Mr. Beale Poste traces his pedigree to GEORGE 
PoSTE (or Post), of Ulcombe (Co. Kent; d. 1502). 

Coat of arms of GEORGE PosTE, of Ulcombe, bore 
arms having for crest a demi eagle with wings rest- 
ing on chapeau." 

Though many of GEORGE POST'S descendants bear 
the name of STEPHEN POST, none of them emigrated 
to America. 



282 Post Family. 

Appendix B. 

Joseph Post. 
"The first grave (in the new burying ground pur- 
chased by the town of Southampton) was on the 
south side of the lot, and is marked by a headstone 
bearing the following inscription: 

'"Heare lyes | ye body of JOSEPH | POST deceased ] 
10 november | aged aboot | 72 172 1.' " 

"Upon the footstone is the following: 

" 'Post Joseph | the first | entared | in this plas.' "* 

From the published records of South- 
ampton, with a picture of the tomb- 
stone. 

♦Second (North End) burying ground. 



Post Family. 283 

Appendix C. 

Abstract of Will of John Post. 

In the Name of God, Amen, I, JOHN PoST, of the 
Towne of Southampton, in the East Riding of York- 
shire. Being in perfect memory, though weake in 
Body. 

I leave to my son JOHN, my house and homestall, 
and all my land adjoining. And my close at the 
Head of the Creek, and a £50 right of Commanage. 

I leave to my son JEREMIAH, the house and home 
lot of my father that he hath given to me. And the 
Close that was my fathers, between the Mill Path, 
and Cobb's Pound path. 

I leave to my son RICHARD, all my close at the 
Long Springs, and my acre of land lying by it. And 
my £50 allotment of land at Meco.x. 

I leave to my three sons my £150 lot at Hog Neck, 
and all my lands west of Canoe Place, and my land 
in the Great Plane. 

I leave to my five daughters Sarah, Dorothy, Mar- 
tha, Mary and Deborah, £5 each, when they are 
married. 

I make my wife Mary, executor, and my sons are 
to live with their mother till they are of age. 

John Post. 

Dated December 9, 1687. 

Witnesses 
Joseph Post 

John LaughtoR. 

Proved at Court of Sessions in Southampton, 
March 21, 1687-8. 

Inventory of estate amounts to £99. 

Recorded in Liber "A" of Deeds, in Sufifolk Coun- 
ty Clerk's office. 



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Missouri. ) 



-7 Charles A. Post, 
(of California.) 

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(of Illinois ) 



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deceased. 



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APPENDIX D.— CHART B. 

Descendants of CAPT. JOHN POST. 



Marguerite Post, born 
June 12. 1893. 



George Birkbeck Post, 

born Jan. 7, 1897. 

Richard Post, born 
Jan. 17, 1904. 



Fanny Post, born Nov. 
7, 1892. 



Mary Post, born Dec. 2, 
1893- 



Lucy M. Post, born Jan. 
31. 1883. 



John J. Post, born Aug. 
27, 1850. died March 
29, 1869. 



Sarah H. Post, born Oct. 
26, 1852. married 
Henry N. Corwith. 
Had children. 



Charles R. Post, born 
Sept. 13, 1854, died 
April 10, 1865. 



Louise J. Post, born 
Feb. 8, i860, married 
Dec. 20, igoo. Silas 
McBee. 



Elizabeth Post, born 
I Nov. II, 1S09, died 

j June 27, i8gu, mar- 
,! ried Joshua Skidmure. 
li Had children. 



John H. Post, born 
April 19, 1812, died 
Aug. 24, 1872, mar- 
ried June 3, 1851. 
Jane Howell, born 
May, 1810, died July 
17, 1901. No chil- 
dren. 



Abram S. Post, born 
June 13, 1862, mar- 
ried Tune 24, 1891, 
Ida P. Crabbe, born 
March 31, 1863. 



William H. Post, born 
Oct. 2, 1865, married 
Jan. 7, 1892, Harriet 
R. Bridges. 



Josiah H. Post, born 
Dec. 10. 1844, mar- 
ried March 29, 1877, 
Lucy Mitchell. 



William E. H. Post, 

born Feb. 27, 1848, 

died July 23. 1877. 

married July. 1877. 

Mary Milford. No 
children. 



Mary Post, born April 

18. 1815. died March 

1 1. 1890, married Oct. 

27, 1836, C. H. Rogers, 

(j Had children. 



William Post, born May 
23. 1819. died Nov. 
I. 1893, married May 
23, 1849, Mary A. 
Jagger, born Nov. 17, 
1828, died Feb. 3, 
1896. 



Frances Post, born May 
31, 1821, died June 
3. 1854. married Tames 
Wickam, died ' June 
3. 1854. No children. 



Marv Post, born Tuly 
27. 1856. 



George O. Post, born 
March 16. 1814, died 
Aug. 7. 1895. mnrried 
ist, Jan. Q. 1844, Julia 
A. liowell. born Aug. 

28. 181 1, died Sept. 
8. 185 1, niai;ried 2d. 
Oct. 26, 1854. Harriet 

- Foster, born March 

29. 1824, died July 8. 
1901. 



Erastus F. Post, born 
July 2, 1859, married 
Nov. 12. 1885, Anna 
Grace Foster. 



Phcebe Post, born April 
7. 1812, died 1 88 1, 
married Nov. 16. 
1841. Benjamin H. 
Foster. Had children. 



George Edward Post, 

born July 3, 1832. 

died Nov. 17. 1892. 

married Susan Clark. 
No children. 



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died 


Nov. 


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1807. Sarah Howell, 
born April 9, 1779, 
died Oct. 10, 183S. 



I Oliver Post, born Nov. 
15. '^777, died April 
13. 1871, married Mary 
Howell, born June i, 
1782, died Feb. 26, 
1808. 



Mary Post, born March 
29, 1780, died Sept. 
S. 1781. 



APPENDIX D— CHART B. 

Descendants of CAPT. JOHN POST. 



James Post mar- 
ried Mary Hunt- 
ting. 



Abraham Post, 
born 1738, died 
Dec. 8, 1815, 
married March 
23. 1773, Mary 
lyUpton, born 
1746, died Dec. 
29, 1807. 



John Post 
ried? 



Possibly there 
were sisters 
Mary and 

Martha. 



John Post, born 
1700, died Jan. 
3. 1793. Capt. 
I St Co. Militia, 
first settler in 
Quogue, married 
Abigail Halsey, 
born 1705, died 
March 17, 1772. 



Joseph Post, born 
1704, died 1780, 
married Bethia 
Jessup. 



Isaac Post, born 
1712. died May 
8, 1785. 



Between 
generations. 



Between 
cousins. 



Between 
brothers 
and sisters. 



Mary Post. 



(Capt.) John Post, 
born 1674, died 
March 3, 1741- 
Made ensign in 
171 1 and later 
Captain of Mili- 
tia. (His Com- 
mission as en- 
sign is in the 
hands of his de- 
scendant Abram 
S. Post.) 

(Capt.) John Post's 
will is recorded 
in the New York 
Surrogate's Of- 
fice. Vol. 14, 
page 52. He 
married Mary 



John Post, died 



Jeremiah Post. 



Sarah Post. 



Dorothy Post. 



Martha Post. 



Deborah Post. 



Richard Post. 



Nov. 3, 1670, to 
Mar^^^ 



Thomas Post. 



Joseph Post, born, 
1649, died Nov. 
10, 1721. 



Martha Post, mar- 
ried Benjamin 
Foster. 



Richard Post, died 



about 1689, mar- 



ried Dorothy 

settled in South- 
ampton village, 
1640. 



Post Family. 287 

Appexdix D. 

In the preceding charts of this appendix D are the 
names of many who have attained positions of in- 
fluence and trust in their communities, viz.: 

William Rogers Post, died 1892, was twelve 
years supervisor of Southampton and a man of ster- 
ling worth. His eldest son, jAMES H. PoST, died in 
the Civil War in 1861. 

William J. Post has been town clerk of South- 
ampton since 1888. 

Albert Jessup Post, President of the village of 
Southampton. 

Hon. ER.ASTUS Foster Post, of Quogue, civil en- 
gineer, a representative man in the Republican party, 
served three terms as the representative of the first 
district of Sufifolk County in the Assembly at Al- 
bany. He has been one of the directors of the South- 
ampton bank since its organization in 1888; is trustee 
of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank. 

James Howell Post is a member of the firm of 
B. H. Howell Son & Co., New York; President of 
the National Sugar Refining Co., member of the 
New York Chamber of Commerce, Director of the 
City Bank, the Central Realty Bond and Trust Com- 
pany, the Williamsburg Savings Bank, and various 
other corporations. 



288 Post Family. 

Appendix E. 

Children of JOHN POST, married, in 1740, to 
Phoebe Willis: 

Phoebe Willis Post, married to John Powell, of 
Flushing, Long Island. 

Abigail Post, married to Henry Pearsall, son of 
Rowland Pearsall, of Oyster Bay, Long Island. 

John Post and Phebe Post (see Appendix F) 
were son and daughter of RICHARD PoST, Sr. (II), 
of Hempstead, who came from Southampton. (See 
chart on page 58.) 



Post Family. 289 

Appendix F. 

Children of Phebe PosT, married, in 1744, to 
Joshua Powell : 

Hannah, born 1745. 
Willets, born 1747. 
Phebe, born 1749. 
Amos, born 1752. 
Joshua, born 1754. 
Richard, born 1757. 
Benjamin, born 1760. 



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Post Family. 293 

AppExNDIx H. 

Copy of the record of RICHARD POST (IV) in the 
family Bible of Hexry Post: 

"Richard Post, born July 17, 1735; died August 
8, 18 13; buried in New York. 

Hannah (Bedle) his wife, born August 28, 1734-* 

Their children were: 

Henry Post, born June n, 1758; died xMay 8, 
1804. 
Israel Post, born July i, 1760. 
James Post, June 19, 1762. 
Mary Post, born October 5, 1777. 
Hannah Post, born August 29, 1779. 

Henry Post. Mersa Post, his wife, born August 
8, 1761 ; died March 19, 1816. Their children 
were: 

Martha Post, born October 30, 1780; died 
March 19, 18 16. 

Susannah Post, born April 15, 1783. 

Israel Post, born January 17, 1784; died Septem- 
ber 19, 1785. 

Gilbert Post, born, in Dutchess County, January 
5, 1786; died April 12, 1871. 



*RlCHA.RD Post and Hannah Bedle were married August 31, 1757. 
See "Marriage Bonds," vol. I, 637 in New York State Library, Albany. 



294 Post Family. 

APPENDIX H. 

Mary Post, born January 15, 1788. 

James Post, born May 4, 1790. 

Willis Post, born November 24, 1792; married 
Catharine, his wife, September 27, 18 17. 

Joseph Post, born October 10, 1795. 

Hexry Post, born April 10, 1798. 

Gilbert Post, born January 5, 1786; died April 
12, 1871. Elizabeth Titus, his wife, born May 10, 
1783; died May 4, 1837. Their children were: 

Mary Post, born, in Rensselaerville, August 28, 
1808; died June 4, 1883. 

Isaac Titus Post, born, in Rensselaerville, Janu- 
ary 4, 1810; died June 4, 1883. 

Emeline Post, born, in Rome, Oneida County, 
December 29, 181 1. 

Joseph Post, born, in Rome, Oneida County, Oc- 
tober 4, 1 813. 

William Post, born, in Rome, Oneida County, 
July 28, 1815; died 1881 or 1882. 

Stephen Titus Post, born, in Rome, Oneida 
County, February 2, 1818. 

Isaac Titus Post. Nancy Pope, his wife. 
Their children : 

Mary Elizabeth Post, born June 5, 1840. 
James Elmer Post, born September 27, 1845. 



Post Family. 295 

APPENDIX H. 

James Elmer Post. Margaret Helena Rogers, 
his wife, born May 27, 1845; married September 5, 
1871. Their children : 

Frederick William Post„ born December 11, 
1872. 
Royal Elmer Post, born April 13, 1884. 

William Post, born July 28, 181 5; died 1881 or 
1882. Adelia Antoinette Wing, his wife, June 19, 
1832. 

Their children: 

Sarah Elizabeth Post, born May 26, 1857. 
Helen Augusta Post, born June 16, 1859. 
Antoinette Wing Post, born August 2, 1861; 
died i884(?). 
Maria Wing Post, born June 27, 1864. 
Irene Wing Post, born November 6, 1869." 



296 Post Family. 

Appendix I. 

Peter Hawes (son-in-law of Jotham Post) was 
born in 1768. He graduated from the Rhode Is- 
land College (now Brown University) with high 
honors and as salutatorian of his class in 1791. The 
following year he came to New York City. 

In the "New York Directory and Register" for 
1795 appears the name of "Peter Hawes, student of 
law, 91 Beekman Street." The same year he was 
admitted to the bar; his license to practise was signed 
by Richard Varick, Mayor of the City. 

Thus did Peter Hawes begin his illustrious career 
at the bar of New York one hundred years ago. He 
rapidly rose to prominence, and by his native talent 
and ability, as well as by his industry and integrity, 
he soon acquired a large clientege. As evidence of 
this it may be mentioned that he organized one of 
the first fire insurance companies of the United 
States, the old 'Washington Insurance Comapny,' 
and remained its secretary up to the time of his death 
in 1829. He was also a member of the New Eng- 
land Society, and served as its secretary from 1807 
to 1809. From 1809 to 1812 he was a member of 
the Common Council, or Board of Aldermen, of this 
city. The office of Alderman was then reserved as 
an honor for the most distinguished and worthy citi- 
zens, and the name of 'City Father' was not inaptly 
bestowed. 



Post Family. 297 

APPENDIX I . 

"The 'Memorial History' of New York makes 
"mention of the fact thatPeterHawes was appointed, 
"with other members of the Common Council, as a 
" 'Committee of Defense,' on December 2, 181 1, and 
"served with honor and distinction three years, look- 
"ing after and protecting the interests of the citizens 
"of New York during the period of the War of 18 12 
"with Great Britain. 

"But Peter Hawes did not spend all his time in 
"poring over Blackstone, and Coke on Littleton. He 
"also found opportunity to seek divine afflatus, and 
"cultivate the muse of poetry. With other bright 
"young fellows of the Knickerbocker period, he 
"founded the Calliopean Society, which flourished 
"several years from October i, 1793, to February 3, 
"1799. They had regular meetings at which poems 
"and essays were read. 

"Some years ago, a descendant of Peter Hawes 
"came across an original autograph poem of his 
"grandfather's which needs a word of explanation. 
"It is entitled 'The Belles of Cherry Street' Cherry 
"Street was then the Court end of town, and filled 
"with elegant and fashionable residences. Conspicu- 
"ous among these was the house built by JOTHAM 
"Post, a respected and wealthy citizen. The doors 
"were of solid mahogany, with silver knobs, solid 
"mahogany balusters, etc. His daughter, Nancy, was 
"acknowledged to be the handsomest girl onManhat- 



298 Post Family. 

APPENDIX I . 

'tan Island, and the Belle of New York. Many were 
'the suiters that thronged her father's house, and 
'sought to carry off the prize. But sad to say she was 
'inclined to be coquettish, as maidens sometimes are 
'even to this day. Scores of broken hearts were laid 
'at her feet, but still she did not relent. Serenades 
'were sung before herwindow, and sonnets composed 
'to her beauty and charms, but without avail. At last 
'Peter, who was a persistent man, and quite set in his 
'ways, like his Puritan ancestors, determined that he 
'must win her. He wrote a number of verses which 
'did not have the effect desired of securing his lady's 
'affections. She only laughed him to scorn. Finally 
'he prepared his chef d'oeuvre wherein she is apos- 
'trophised under the pseudonym of 'Eliza,' the name 
'by which she was known in all these effusions. All 
'the other belles of Cherry Street are mentioned in 
'turn, only to be rejected. The final verse sets forth 
'the pre-eminent attractions of 'Eliza.' There are 
'many personal allusions which cannot be appre- 
'ciated at this distant day. But the poem is sprightly 
'and clever. Whether it was this poem which caused 
'her to smile upon him with favor, deponent saith 
'not. But certain it is that after a long and arduous 
'courtship, on the nth day of May, 1797, Peter 
'Hawes was able to lead NANCY POST, a fair and 
'blushing bride, to the altar, and the twain were 
'made one." 



Post Family. 299 

appendix i . 

The Belles of Cherry Street. 

Erato, sweetest Muse, assist my lays, 

While I advent'rous sound the chord of praise, 

Or dare proclaim the beauties of the fair. 

The winning Virtues, or the modest air. 

The matchless persons, and their forms replete. 

With ev'ry grace, who dwell in Ch y S t. 

Rash Youth, forbear. Methinks the Muse reply'd, 

Nor dare each beauty to describe; 

Tho' sweet th' employ, with worth to fill the page. 

To count E 's charms would cost an age. 

Life is too short to sound her praises forth. 
Volumes too small to mention half her worth; 
Still would I rashly the fond theme pursue. 
And strive to paint those beauties to the view; 
For this, once more, oh. Muse, thy pow'r I ask, 
Then aid my fancy in this pleasing task. 

But, say, whose beauties first wilt thou rehearse. 
Who most from virtuous merit claim thy verse? 
Or her, whose face, whose form in ev'ry part 
Proclaims her nature's master-piece of art? 
Or wilt thou, like yon glorious orb of light. 
That forms our day, or points our path by night 
Rise in the East, and, with descriptive force. 
Pursue the street, as he pursues his course? 



300 Post Family. 

APPENDIX I . 

Thee, first, oh, Jane. Thy beauties meet our eyes, 

Beauties which B — n knows how much to prize, 

And while he fondly gazes on thy charms, 

The rapturous glow of love his bosom warms; 

Thy gentle manners void of ev'ry art. 

Thy graceful smile has bound his generous heart; 

Intent on these he knows no other fair. 

Thou art his life, his thoughts, his joy, his care. 

Next Ellen, whom the muses oft have sung. 

Whose charms so oft thro' the museum rung; 

Who flippant Crito, anxious for to please, 

Portray'd with "grace, wit, sense and sparkling ease," 

But well might Crito thus exulting praise. 

And proudly tune his best, his fondest lays, 

For Ellen, such thy face, thy form, thy air. 

Few greater beauties boast, few half so fair. 

Whoe'er those lovely sable tresses sees. 

In graceful ringlets kiss the passing breeze; 

Thy form angelic, or those lovely eyes. 

Feels the warm wish, the fond effusion rise. 

But why 'midst those who to thy beauty bow, 
Has no fond Youth proferred the nuptial vow, 
Why not, enraptur'd by thy winning charms, 
Sigh'd to enclose you in his longing arms; 
Do they inconstant from the nuptial bow'r, 
Fly off like insect when they taste the flow'r? 



Post Family. 301 

APPENDIX I . 

Or can no sighs or tears, your pity move, 

Warm your cold heart, or walce your soul to love: 

Consider, Ellen, lest those vain delays. 

Should waste your charms and steal your youthful 

days. 
And thou be doomed in Pluto's drear domain 
To lead a cap'ring ape in silken chain. 

But hark, what cruel nymph could cause to rise. 
Those piercing groans, or wake those mournful sighs, 
Rebecca, say, art thou the cruel fair, 

And M e the swain that rends with sighs the air? 

Ah, Hog, too much I fear this mournful strain. 
Those sighs, those tears, alas, are all in vain : 
You gaze in vain with rapture on her charms — 
In vain your bosom beats to soft alarms : 
Some happier Youth possesses all her care. 
Her love — and leaves thee nought but sad despair, 
Since then is banished ev'ry ray of hope, 
Use that cure for love — an end of rope. 

Miss now with measured pace is seen. 

With tortur'd features, studied gait and mien; 
Of self — importance, alTectation full, 
Formal and serious, phlegmatic and dull. 
Pity, alas! That we so often find, 
Vain affectation taint the female mind. 



302 Post Family. 

APPENDIX I . 

Lovely as morn that ushers in the day 
When choirs of warblers hail returning May; 
And Nature lavish, o'er her carpet strews 
Her opening flowers of various hues; 
Blythe as the lark that wakes to early love, 
Meek as the lamb, and harmless as the dove. 
Does lovely R - d - n meet our wandering eyes. 
Raise the fond wish, and fill us with surprise. 

Those baneful passions which so often are 
Unhap'ly nurs'd in bosoms of the fair. 
In that dear breast could ne'er an entrance find, 
Nor e'er contaminate that virtuous mind; 
Not afifectation with her stififen'd mien, 
And tortur'd features, ever could be seen; 
But following nature, all her actions tend 
To charm the lover, or to fix a friend, 
These praises, Nancy, equally thy due, 
For all the gentler Virtues dwell with you; 
Thy form is grace replete in ev'ry part. 
But far much nobler graces fill thy heart; 
These, these shall far outlive frail beauty's ray. 
Smile e'en in age, and never know decay. 

Eliza, formed with every charm to please, 
Wins the soft heart and moulds it at her ease, 
Now claims my lay — had I Pope's tuneful lyre, 
His fertile genius, his poetic fire. 



Post Family. 303 

APPENDIX I . 

The sweetest voice of love should fondly flow, 
The heart exult, the best ideals glow, 
To paint that fair, that lovely blushing cheek, 
Those beauteous eyes that eloquently speak; 
That modest front where candor dwells, 
Where smiling innocence each art repels. 
Those nectar lips, with tints of glowing red, 
Which are with sense and goodness ever fed; 
That skin, pure, spotless, and of dazzling hue, 
Prone to betray the bright ethereal blue; 
That lovely neck, that shape, that grace, that air, 
Those thousand nameless charms that deck the fair. 
These when the muse in brightest numbers drew, 
Would be but faintly pictured to the view; 
Then sure no pen howe'er sublime, no art 
Can paint the richer beauties of her heart. 



304 Post Family. 

APPENDIX I . 

Five children were the result of this marriage, 
William Post, Susan, Matilda, William Post II, and 
Matilda II. 

Nancy Post died July 4, 1806, and on June 16, 
1808, Peter Hawes married for his second wife Mar- 
garette Ray, by whom he had nine children, Eliza 
Ray, Nancy Post, Charles Robert, Mary Louisa, 
Rufus King (named after his particular friend), 
Rufus King II, Peter Augustus, Gardiner Spring, 
and Julia Lynch. All these fourteen children are 
now dead except one daughter. The only descend- 
ants in the male line remaining in this country are 
the two sons of Peter Augustus, of whom the writer 
of this paper is one. 

William Post Hawes graduated from Columbia 
College in 1821, at the age of eighteen years. He 
was admitted to the bar in New York City in 1824. 
He served in the New York State Militia from the 
grade of ensign, in January, 1825, through all the 
successive ranks to that of colonel of the Twenty- 
second Regiment of Infantry, in January, 1836. He 
was secretary of the New England Society, 1824-29. 
He commenced literary work in 1827, by contrib- 
uting articles to the "American Monthly Magazine," 
"The Mirror," "New York Times,"" "Standard," 
"N. Y. Spirit of the Times and Turf Register," etc., 
which displayed a great love of nature, a facile pen, 
graceful style, and wonderful descriptive powers. 



Post Family. 305 

APPENDIX I . 

Some of these stories, poems, etc., were collected 
and published in two volumes by Henry William 
Herbert ("Frank Forester") in 1834, under the title 
of "Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches, being the 
miscellaneous writings of J. Cypress, Jr.," which also 
includes a most touching and appreciative notice of 
his dead friend, cut ofif in his prime, at the age of 
38. 

(The above account of Peter Hawes is taken from 
a lecture delivered before the Genealogical Society 
of New York, by a descendant of Peter Hawes, Gil- 
bert Ray Hawes, Esq.) 



3o6 Post Family. 

Appendix J. 

From "Marriage Bonds," Vol. 1:858 N. Y. 
State Library, Albany: 

"Know all Men by These Presents, 

"That We Waldron Blaau of New York Mercht. 
and Isaac Goelet of the same place Mercht. are held 
and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lord George 
the 2d by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France 
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., in the 
Sum of five hundred Pounds, current Money of the 
Province of New York, to be paid to his said Ma- 
jesty, or his Heirs and Successors: For the which 
Payment well and truly to be made and done, We 
do bind ourselves, and each of us, our and each of 
our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and every 
of them, firmly by these Presents. 

"Sealed with our Seals, Dated the 21st day of 
March in the 31st Year of his said Majesty's Reign, 
Annoq. Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
fifty eight. 

"The Condition of this Obligation is such. That 
whereas the above-bounden Waldron Blaau hath ob- 
tained a license of Marriage for himself of the one 
party and Eleanor Creson of the City of New York 
Spinster of the other Party. Now if it shall not ap- 
pear hereafter, that they or either of them the said 
Waldron Blaau & Eleanor Creson have any lawful 
Let or Impediment of Pre-Contract, Afiinity or Con- 



Post Family 307 

APPENDIX J. 

sanguinity, to hinder their being joined in the Holy 
Bonds of Matrimony, and afterwards their living 
together as Man and Wife; Then this Obligation to 
be Void and of none Effect, or else to stand, remain, 
abide and be in full Force and Virtue. 

"Sealed and Delivered in 

"the Presence of "Waldron Blaau 

"Jno. Godley." "Isaac Goelet." 

will of waldron blau. 

Recorded in England. 

WA1.DRON Blau, of City of New York, New York. Will 
23 June, 1783; proved 19 November, 1787. 

To my son, Richard Blau, my house and block opposite 
the Exchange in Broad street. New York, in tenure of Jona- 
than Clarke. All the rest to my wife, Eleanor Blau, and 
at her death to be sold and divided amongst my children, share 
and share alike, except that as my eldest son, Uriah, has had 
iioo from me, all my other children to receive £100 before 
the division be made. If my wife re-marry, the estate be sold, 
and she to have ii,ooo of New York currency; the rest to be 
divided as above. 

Executors: My wife, Eleanor, and my son, Uriah. 
Witnesses: Nat. Chandler, Fras Groome, John Knap^p. 

Major, 485. 



The name is spelled Blaau in the Marriage Bond and Blau in the 
Will. 



3o8 Post Family. 

appendix j. 
The Waldron Family. 

"Joseph and Resolved Waldron, sons of Resolved 
Waldron, of Amsterdam, were book printers. The 
family was English — the name of repute in England 
from the time of the Conquest, had spread through 
nearly all its southern tiers of counties. 

"But born and raised at Amsterdam, these broth- 
ers had acquired all the characteristics of Holland- 
ers, having also married Dutch wives, the sisters 
Aethe and Rebecca Hendricks, whose father, Hend- 
rick Koch, was a respectable Amsterdam burgher. 

"Joseph Waldron came to America two years be- 
fore his brother, with his second wife, Annetie 
Daniels, but 25 when he married her at Amsterdam, 
April 4, 1649. 

"Joseph Waldron had a son, Rutgers Waldron, 
who had a daughter, Cornelia Waldron, who mar- 
ried Jaurian Blaau, sometimes spelled Blaaua. 
Their son, Waldron Blaau, married Eleanor Cres- 
son (called Neltje). Their daughter, Magdalen 
Blaau, married JOTHAM PoST, Jr." (Riker's His- 
tory of the New Netherlands.) 

"Waldron Blaau, of New York. In 1776 an ad- 
dressor of Lord and Sir William Howe; in 1782 cap- 
tain in the Third Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers. 
Went to St. Johns, New Brunswick, in 1783, and 



Post Family. 309 

APPENDIX J. 

died five days after landing there. His house and 
lands in the City of New York were confiscated, but 
restored to his widow and daughter." ("Biographi- 
cal Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolu- 
tion," by Lorenzo Sabine.) 

"Resolved Waldron (brother of Joseph) , who had 
been in the printing business at Amsterdam, emi- 
grated with his family to New Netherlands in 1654, 
and in the same year Governor Stuyvesant made a 
grant of that portion of Manhattan Island lying be- 
tween Eighty-second and One Hundred and Ninth 
Streets, and extending from the North to the East 
River, to Baron Waldron and two others. In 1657 
Resolved Waldron was admitted a burgher, and in 
1658 he was appointed deputy sherifif and to the 
schout-fiscal (attorney-general) de Sille. In 1659 
he was sent with Augustine Heermans to Maryland 
to vindicate the Dutch title on the Delaware. On 
the accession of the English, Waldron took the oath 
of allegiance (1664) and retired to private life in 
Harlem. He was one of the five patentees named 
in NicoU's patent. He died in 1690, his inventory 
embracing lands, slaves, farm stock, etc. He mar- 
ried first, Rebecca Hendricks, and second, Janneke 
Nagel." (Riker's Harlem and Annals of New- 
town.) 



3IO Post Family. 

APPENDIX J. 

"Resolved Waldron, the most noted, as he was one 
of the most intelligent of the Harlem settlers, needed 
not the titular dignity of Baron, which some of poetic 
humor claim for him; yet might he have well graced 
the title. As we have seen, he had been in the print- 
ing business at Amsterdam, and emigrated with his 
family to New Netherlands late in 1654." (Wash- 
ington Irving's "Knickerbocker History of New 
York.") 

"On the council records of January 8, 1661, it is 
stated that the Governor (Stuyvesant) addressed the 
people of Jamaica, informing them that he had re- 
ceived their petition for a minister to baptize some 
of their children ; and their information that Quakers 
and other sects held private conventicals. He tells 
them that he had dispatched his deputy-sherifif. Re- 
solved Waldron, and one of his clerks, Nicholas Bay- 
ard, to take notice thereof, and requiring the inhab- 
itants to give exact information where and in what 
house such unlawful conventicals were kept; what 
persons had exercised therein, what men or women 
had been present; who called the meeting, and 
of all the circumstances appertaining thereunto." 
("Thompson's History of Long Island," vol. H, p. 
292.) 



Post Family. 311 

APPENDIX J. 

Burke, in his "General Armory," describes the 
Waldron arms as: 

First — Walrond (Sea, County Somerset, and Dul- 
ford county Devon; descended from the Walronds 
of Bradfieid, and now represented by Bethell Wal- 
rond, of Dulford House, Esq., only surviving son of 
the late Joseph Lyons Walrond, Esq., and Caroline, 
his wife, daughter of Edward Codrington, of Dod- 
ington, county Gloucester, Esq.), ar. three bulls' 
heads cabossed sa., armed or, quartering Afflete, 
Brokehampton, Devenish, Hoo, Wells, &c. 

Crests — First, a heraldic tiger sa., pellettee; 
second, granted by Charles I. to Colonel Humph- 
rey Walrond for his services during civil wars, on 
a mural crown an heraldic tiger sa., pellettee. 

Motto — Nee beneficii immemor nee injuriae. 

Second — Walrond (Calder Park, county Lanark, 
a branch of the Walronds of Bradfield, represented 
by the present Theodore Walrond, of Calder Park, 
Esq., son of Charles Wills Waldron, Esq., and grand- 
son of Main Swete Walrond, of the Island of An- 
tigua, Esq., and Sarah, his wife, sister and heiress of 
William Lyons, of Antigua and Philadelphia, Esq.), 
ar. three bulls' heads sa., armed or., quarterings same 
as those of Waldron, of Dulford. 

Crests — First, a heraldic tiger sa., pellettee; 
second, on a mural crown a heraldic tiger sa., pel- 
letee. 

Motto — Paix et peu. 



312 Post Family. 

appendix j. 

Blaau. 

"Johannes Blaau (w) was a native of Amsterdam, 
and the oldest son of William or Willem Jansy Blaau 
(w), the celebrated printer. He succeeded his 
father in business in 1638, and in 165 1 was chosen 
schepen or mayor and one of the thirty-six city coun- 
cillors. 

"His world-renowned printing establishment, 
which stood in the rear of the Neuw Kerk, was 
burned to the ground on the 22d of February, 1672, 
and the plates and letter press of his celebrated Atlas 
were unfortunately consumed at the same time. His 
losses were esteemed at 328,200 guilders, or $131,200. 
He did not long survive the misfortune, having died 
on the 20th of December, 1673. He was the cele- 
brated cartographer." (From "Holland Docu- 
ments.") 

Holland Documents; XV. 63 New Netherlands 
colonies, maintenances and documents. 

"Resolution of the Common Council of the City 
of Amsterdam 24th of Oct., 1663 : 

"The Burgomasters have submitted to the council 
some proposals of Commissioners and Directors of 
the City's Colony in New Netherland respecting its 
maintenance and advancement and what to that end 
should at present be taken by the hand and put in 
operation, according to the aforesaid proposal con- 



Post Family. 313 

APPENDIX J . 

tained in writing and enregistered in muntenent 
Register D. fal. 148. 

Which being considered, Mr. Joris Bacher, Mr. 
Peter Cloek, Dr. Joan Blaau, Cornelius Gulvinch 
and Gerard Hasselaer are requested and appointed 
to hear the aforesaid Commissioners and Directors 
further touching said proposal and to examine the 
same and to report their opinions and advice there- 
from at the earliest moment. 

Dr. Joan Blaau was appointed on a Committee to 
consider in what manner the Colonies of the City of 
Amsterdam, New Netherlands, could be separated 
from the West India Co. The better to forward the 
prosperity of the Colonies." (Riker's "History of 
the New Netherlands.") 



314 Post Family. 

appendix j. 

appendix j continued. 

Cresson. 

Pierre Cresson was a Huguenot exile. 

"Their ancient family seat was Misnil la Cresson 
(Cresson Manor) near Abbeville Picardy. 

"Pierre Cresson, a Picard Protestant, born in 1609, 
fled into Holland, and there remained an exile seven- 
teen years; part of this time at Sluis, Delft, Leyden 
and Ryswich ; in the early part of this period acted 
as gardener to the 'Prince of Orange,' and was ever 
afterwards called 'Pierre le Jardinier'; with his fam- 
ily emigrated to America, 1657, settled at Harlem, 
of which town he was one of the first Magistrates in 
1660. He removed to Staten Island in 1678; died 
about 1684." 

Pierre Cresson married Rachel Cloos, also a 
French Huguenot. "She joins with her husband in 
making a will in 1673." They were members of the 
Reformed Church. 

Their great-granddaughter, Eleanor (called 
(Meethe) Neeltje) Cresson, married Waldron 
Blaau. Their daughter, Magdalen Blaau, married 
JoTHAM Post, Jr. 



ADDENDA. 

Pages 29 and 30 — Four pictures painted by Frans Post are 
at present owned by members of the family of General Philip 
Sidney Post, of Galesburg, 111. 



Page loi. — Photograph of Dr. Wright Post is taken from 
a portrait painted for, and in the possession of the New York 
Hospital. 



INDEX. 



POST NAMES. 

(Including Poste. Von Post, Van der Poest, etc.) 



A., 139 

Abby Mauran, 100 
Abigail, 80, 285, 288 
Abraham, 284, 286 
Abraham Kintzing, 195, 
198, 203, 204, 205, 206, 

207, 208 
Abram, 285 
Abram S., 71, 286 
Adeline Emma, 272 
Adolph, 2, 9, II, 15 
Adrian, 116 
Adrian (Capt.), 47 
Acnes, 284 

Agnes Elizabeth, 12 

Agnetje, 47 

Agnetje Bouen H. V. Ludo- 

WICK, 48 

Albert Jessup, 284, 287 
Albert Kintzing, 144, 165, 
184, 198, 203, 206, 207, 

208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 
214, 217 

Albertson Van Zo, 247, 260 
Ale.xander H am I l t o n 

Stump, 122, 132, 133 
Alfred Augustus, 144, 149. 

150, 151, 152 
Alfred Charles, 97, 144, 

146, 149, 150, 152 



Alfred Charles, (M. D.), 
141, 143, 146, 148, 149. 

151. 152, 153 
Alfred Seton, 203, 221, 222, 

223, 224 
Alfred Seton, Jr., 224 
Alfreda, 150, 157 
Alice, 145. 190, 191. i93. 291 
Alice Adeline, 232, 239 
Alice Lee, 221, 224 
Alice Winefred, 165, 175 
Alleta Bayley, 120 
Allison. 96, 97, 98, 99, 139. 
197, 202, 248, 271, 272, 
273, 274, 275, 276, 277 
Allison Wright, 165, 175, 

176, 179 
Alma. 272, 274 
Alson, 56 

Amelia, 272, 274, 290 
Amy, 291 
Angelin.-\, 196, 233, 234, 237, 

242, 244 
Angeline, 232 
Anietje, 46, 72 
Anne, 97, 142. i45 
Antoinette Wing, 295 
Arden, 1x6, 120 
Arden Carey, 120 
Arthur, 6, 7, 8, 42, 52, 59, 
145, 190, 191, 192, 193, 
291 
Arthur Mitchell, 150, 157 



11 



Index. 



August-Frederic, 12 
August-Otto, 12, 14, 24 

B 

Barbara, 47, yz 
Bastiaen, 32 
Beale (Rev.), 279, 281 
Beatrice de Trobriand, 165, 

185 
Bernhard, 13 
Bertha King, 292 
Bertram Van Dyke, 150, 

157, 158, 159 
Bruce Price, 247, 261 



Caleb, 284 

Caroline, 97, 232, 237, 272, 

274, 276, 290 
Carolyn Beatrice, 207, 212, 

218, 219, 247, 260 
Catharine, 293, 294 
Catharine Ann, 99 
Catherine, 54, 56, 97, 112, 

116, 122, 290, 291 
Catherine Charlton, hi 
Catherine Wadsworth, 

112, 114, 116. 
Charles, 290, 291 
Charles A., 182, 183, 284 
Charles Alfred, 122, 165, 

167, 181, 184, 185, 211 
Charles Francis, 232, 236 
Charles Kintzing, 207,216 
Charles Morgan, 291 
Charles R., 285 
Charles William, 196, 232, 

234 

ChRISTIAN-LuDVVIG. 12, 13 

Claus, 10 
Clementine, 166 



Clementine Church, 97 
Cornelia, 292 
Cornelia Almira, 51 
Cornelis, 33 



D'Alfred C, 147 
Daniel, 290, 291, 292 
David, 7, 32 
Deborah, 73, 75, 283, 284, 

286 
Dederik-William-Chris- 

tian, 13 
Donnell Shepard, 187, 189 
Dorothy, 73, 75, 283, 284, 

286 
Dorothy Isabel, 159 
Dorothy Margaret, 232, 236 



Edgar Norris, 144, 149, 150 
Edith, 291 

Edith Church, 165, 185 
Edmund, 290, 291, 292 
Edmund, Jr., 291 
Edmund L., 291 
Edmund, Sr., 77 
Edward, 97, 11 1, 112, 116, 

122, 142, 143, 145, 186, 

187, 188, 279, 281, 290, 

291 
Edward Church, 145, 186, 

187, 188 
Edward Rogers, 284 
Edwin, 97, 196, 200, 201, 

246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 

284 
Edwin Augustus, 196, 247, 

249, 250, 251, 252 
Edwin Frederick, 196, 231, 

233. 234, 238 



Index. 



Ill 



Edwin Frederick, Jr., 238 

Edwin Main, 247, 260, 261 

Edwin Main, Jr., 247, 261 

Edwina, 247 

Edwin A M., 252 

Eleanor, 5, 195, 200, 262, 264 

Eleanor or Ellen, 97 

Eliza, 99, 298 

Eliza Chapman, 233, 241 

Elizabeth, 7, 72, 85, 96, 97, 

122, 273, 285, 290, 291 
Elizabeth Boardley, 132 
Elizabeth Charlotte, 187, 

189 
Elizabeth Floyd, 272, 274 
Elizabeth-Juliana, 13 
Elizabeth Kintzing, 204 
Elizabeth Mary, 26, 272, 

274 
Elizabeth West, 207, 216 
Ellen, 196, 247 
Ellen Allen, 196, 247, 249 
Ellenor, 55 
Elsie, 232, 236 
Emeline, 294 
Emily, 97, iii, 112, 115, 116, 

122, 135, 137, 232, 237, 

247, 248, 272, 274, 276, 

290 
Emily Elizabeth, 272 
Emily Elizabeth (Lizzie), 

275 
Emily Oliver, 252 
Emma, 144, 149, 150 
Erastus F., 285 
Erastus Foster (Hon.), 287 
Erich Isvard, 16 
Erskine Mason, 144, 149, 

150 
estelle a.'lma, 232, 236 
Esther, 290 



Ethel Maud, 221, 224 
Eugene, 97, iii, 112, 113, 

116, 121, 122, 123, 124, 

126 
Eugene Howard, 112, 122, 

123 
Eugene Minturn, 292 
Euretta, 203, 221 
EuRETTA Barnwell, 222 



Faith, 112, 115, 116 

Fanny, 285 

FiLiP, 32 

Florence, 122 

Florence Elizabeth, 134 

Floyd, 99 

Frances, 285 

Francis Read, 150, 157 

Franck Donalson, 122, 130 

Frans, 29, 30 

Frederic, id 

Frederick-Christian, 12 

Frederick, 9 

Frederick A., 189 

Frederick Alfred, 145, 186, 

187, 188 
Frederick Floyd, 187, 189 
Frederick William, 295 

G 

G., 28 

Garrard, 247, 260 

Garret, 51 

Garret (Col), 48, 49, 51 

Garrit, 48 

General, 29, 51 

George, 4, 5- 35- 38, 54, i54, 

168, 169, 279, 281, 284 
George (Capt), 284 
George Arnold, 3, 16, 22 



IV 



Index. 



George Atwell, 232, 237 
George Atwell, Jr., 232, 237 
George Augustus, 177 
George Birkbeck, 285 
George Brown, 144, 167, 
168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 

173. 174- 1 75. 176, 177. 

178, 180 
George Browne II, 175, 177 
George Browne III, 165, 177 
George Dominick, 97, 141, 

144 
George E., 148 
George Edward, 144, 149, 

150, 151, 285 
George Edward (M. D.), 

153' 157. 158 
George Henry Draper, 187, 

189 
George Howard, 112, 122, 

125 
George O., 285 
George-William, 13 
Georgia, 291 
Gilbert, 293, 294 
Goossen. 4 

H 

H., 28, 29 

H. A. v., 253, 254, 257 

H. A. v., (Mrs.). 258 

H. H., 27 

Hannah, 166, 293 

Harriet Appleton, 165, 177 

Harriet Edith, 144, 146, 

149, 150, 161, 162 
Harriet Parker. 122, 130 
Harriet Terry. 112, 115, 

116, 244 
Harriette Helena, 51 
Hattie, 291 



Heinrich, 2, 4, 15 
Helen, 233, 241, 291 
Helen Agnes, 291, 293 
Helen Augusta, 295 
Helen L., 203 
Helen Louise, 195, 204, 226, 

228 
Helen Minturn, 292 
Helen Wadsworth, 116, 120 
Henry, 9, 10, 70, 74, 75, 81, 

83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 

290, 291, 292, 293, 294 
Henry A. V., 144 
Henry Albertson, 149, 150 
Henry Albertson Van Zo, 

97, 141, 196. 218, 247, 

249, 250, 253, 254, 259, 

260, 261 
Henry Burnet, 260 
Henry Burnett, 247 
Henry H., 284 
Henry Morgan, 221, 224, 

291 
Henry R., 291 
Herbert, 291 
Herman Lothar (Baron), 

2. 15 
Hermanus, 28 
Herren, I 
Hunting J., 284 

I 

Ignatz Philip (Baron). 3, 

16 
Irene Wing, 295 
Isaac, 284, 286, 290, 291, 292 
Isaac R., 291 
Isaac Titus, 294 
Israel, 293 
I ward, 3 



Index. 



J-. 7. 31 
J- J-> 139 
J. & J., 146 
J. & J. & A., 197 
Jacob, 80, 291 
Jacobus (Major), 48 
James, 85, 284, 286, 290, 291, 
292/293, 294 

James Boyce, 122 

James Byers, 196, 231, 232, 
234. 235 

James Byers III, 236 

James Byers, Jr., 232, 235 

James H., 284, 287 

James Howell, 284, 287 

James Nicholson, 122 

Jan, 5, 6, 28, 29, 30 

Jan Ludolf, 7 

Janetje, 47 

Janus, 32, 33 

Jeremiah, 47, 71, 72, 73, 75, 
76, 77, 81, 238, 283, 284, 
286 

Jeremiah II, 72 

Jessie, 291 

Joachim, ii, 13 

Joachim-Werner. 10 

Jo.\chim-William, 13 

Joannes. 7 

Joel. 95, 97, 98, 99, 138. 139, 
140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 
14s, 146, 166, 168, 181, 
188, 192, 197, 202, 211, 

273 

Joel Browne, 97, 141, 142, 
14^. 144, 164, 165, 166, 
167, 168, 181, 188 

Joel Browne (Mrs.), 145 

joHANN, II, 34 



Johann Dederik, 12 
Johannes, 47 
Johannes Cornelius, 33 
Johannes Robertus, 32 
John, 54, 56, 57, 70, 71, 73. 
75.77.78,80,81,97, 192, 

283, 284, 286, 288, 291 
ToHN (Capt.). 71, 72, 72,. 75, 

284, 286 

John Alexander, 142, 143, 

145, 190, 191, 192 
John Coe, 51 
John Eager Howard, 112, 

122, 124, 126, 127, 129, 

130 
John Eugene Howard, 121, 

130 
John H., 285 
John J., 285 
John. Jr., 284 
John Morris, 145, 190, 191, 

193 
John Reed, 233, 241 
John W., 291 
Joseph, 56, 70, 72, 73, 75, 80, 

282, 283, 284. 286, 291, 

294 
Joseph (Baron), 4, 16 
Joseph Kent, 232, 237 
Josiah H., 285 

JOTHAM, 39 45, 73. 74, 75. 
81, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94. 95, 

97,98, loi, 139, 195, 196, 

197. 199, 202, 272. 273, 
274, 284, 296. 297 
JoTHAM (M. D.), 234, 275 

Jotham II, 95, 97, 98, 194. 

195, 201, 202, 229, 230, 
246, 248, 262 

Joth.\m III, 97 



VI 



Index. 



JoTHAM, Jr., 197, 198, 199. 

200, 308, 314 
JoTHAM II, Jr., 197 
JoTHAM William, 196, 201, 

233 
JoTHAM William (M. D.), 

200, 229, 230, 231, 232, 

238, 241, 242, 243, 244 
JoTHAM William II, 231, 

234, 241 
JoTHAM William III, 241 
Julia, 97, 144, 149. 150, 161, 

163, 195, 203 
Julia Elizabeth, 204, 225, 

226 
Julia Lynch, 195, 200, 262, 

263 
Julia Strong, 272, 274, 277 
JuLiANE, 270 

K 

Kathep.tve Hoppin, 165, 179 

L 

Langdon Ward, 207, 216 

Laura Josepki:;^ 247, 259 

Lilian, 178 

Lillian, 165 

Lillian de Peyster, 116, 120 

Lin A Beatrice, 207, 212 

Lina de Trobriand, 207, 212, 

216 
Lionel, 97, m, 112, 116, 

120, 122 
Louise J., 2S5 
Lucretia Main, 249 

LUCRETIA MarI.V, 196, 247 

Lucy M., 285 
ludovvick, 46 
Ludwig, 2, 9, 15 



Ludwig-Christian, 13 
Lydia, 88. 290, 291, 292 

M 

Mabel Catherine, 221, 224 

Mabel Howard, 122, 134 

Madeline, 196, 232, 233, 234, 
237, 242, 243 

Magdalen, 97 

Magdalen Rachel, 196, 200, 
262, 267 

Margaret, 8, 52, 59. 144 

Margaret Elizabeth, 122, 
123, 149, 150, 161, 162 

Margaret Howard, 122, 132 

Margaretha, 32 

Marguerite, 285 

Maria Jephson, 247, 259 

Maria Wing, 295 

Marie Caroline, 185 

Marie Caroline de Trobri- 
and, 184 

Marion Hood, 165, 178 

Martha, 70, 73, 75, 122, 166, 
283, 284, 286, 293 

Martha Goldsborough. 132 

Martha W., 291 

Mary, 16, 56, 73, 75, 81, 85, 
89, 90, 91, 96, 97, III, 
112, 116, 122, 135, 136, 
137, 141, 144, 196, 247, 
249, 284, 286, 290, 291, 
292, 293. 294 

Mary (Willis), 90 

Mary Allen, 232, 238 

Mary Alma, 188 

Mary Elizabeth, 294 

Mary Ellen, 196, 233, 234 

Mary Jane, 290 

Mary, Jr., 73 

Mary L.winia, 149, 150 



Index. 



Vll 



Mary Lawrence, 207, 216 
Mary Magdalen, 112, 122, 

124 
Mary Matilda, 291 
Mary Minturn, 292 
Mary Morris, 112, 115, 116 
Maude Evelyx, 247, 260 
Maximilian (, Baron), 4, 16 
Melancthon, 284 
Meretje Cornelius H. V. 

VAN ElIAS, 48 

Mersa, 293 

Minturn (M. D.), 292 
Morgan Gibbes, 247, 252 
Mrs., 258 

N 

Nancy, 96, 97, 297, 298, 304 
Nancy Elizabeth Mary, 

196, 200, 262, 266 
Nathalie McLean, 247, 260 
Nathan, 284 
Nicholas, il 

o 

Oliver, 56, 285 



P., 31 

Panwell, 5, 6, 7, 8, 35, 38 
Pauline, 272, 275 
Peter, 4, 5. 35. 284 
Peter Arnold, 5, 6 
Peter Lasson, 3, 22 
Peter Schuyler, 49 
Petrus Abel LTiterweer, 33 
Petrus Abraham Van der 

HOEVEN, 33 



Petrus Uiterweer, 33 
Phebe, 73, 75, 79, 80, 289, 

291 
Phebe Anna, 291 
Philip Allen, 247, 252 
Philip didney, 49, 51 
Philip Sidney, Jr., 51 
Phoebe, 285 
Phoebe Willis, 288 
PlETER, 29, 30 



Rachel, 290 

Reginald Morris, 191, 193 

Regis Henri, 207, 212, 213, 

217, 218, 219, 247, 260 
Regis Henri, Jr., 219, 247 
Remsen Forbes, 191, 193 
Richard, 5, 7, 8, 10, 38, 45, 

47. 52, 53. 54. 58. 59. 60, 
61, 62, 63, 67, 70, 73, 76, 
77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 
84, 85, 89, 90, 91, lOI, 
283, 284, 286, 293 
Richard (Lieutenant), 75, 

284 
Richard II, 71, 73, 74, 75 

112, 121 
Richard III, 74, 90, 91, 93, 
Richard IV, 74, 75, 293 
Richard B.ayley, 97, iii, 
112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 

117, 122, 125, 126, 132, 
133. 244 

Richard B-\YLEY(Rev.),ii7, 

118, 120 
RiCH.\RD Bayley n, 120 
Richard, Jr., 78, 81, 82, 89, 

90 



VUl 



Index. 



Richard, Jr., Ill, 73, 75, 290 
Richard, Sr., 80 
Richard, Sr., II, 288 
Robert, 291 
Robert Read, 150, 157 
Royal Elmer, 295 
RuDEN, 291 



Samuel, 7, 72, 290, 291, 292 
Samuel, Jr., 290 
Samuel L. M., 232, 240 
Samuel Latham Mitchell, 

238 
Sara, 292 
Sarah, 5, 6, 71, 7^, 75, 82, 

91, 203, 221, 284, 286, 

290, 291, 292 
Sarah Byers, 196, 232, 234 
Sarah Klizabeth, 222, 295, 
Sarah H., 285 
Sarah Reed, 232, 240 
Sarah M., 203 
Sarah Madeline, 195, 204 
Sebastian, 31 
Sergeant, 63 
Simon Dercksen, 46 
Sophia-Amalia, 13 
Sophia Howard, 112, 122, 

123, 124 
Stantius, 10 
Statius Frederic, 12 
Stephen, 7, 8, 52, 53, 54, 55, 

56. 57, 59, 60, 75, 82, 91, 

279, 281, 284 
Stephen R.. 291 
Stephen Titus, 294 
Stephen W., 291 
Susanna, 6 
Susannah, 293 



Themis, 47 

Thomas, 5, 54, 56, 57. 70, 75. 

289, 284, 286 
Tobias, 31 

u 

Ur, 97, 195, 200 

w 

Waldron Blaau, 97, 195, 
198, 200, 201, 202, 204, 
205, 214, 217, 222, 225, 
226, 230, 260, 273 

Waldron Blaau, Jr., 204, 
205, 220, 221, 222, 223 

Waldron Kintzing, 198, 
207, 212, 213, 214, 215, 
216 

Wallace, 291 

Walter Blaau, 221, 224 

Walter Eugene, 203, 206, 
207 

Walther, 2, 10, 15 

Werner, 10, 11 

Werner-Ernest, 12 

Wilfred McIlvaine, 150, 
157, 158, 160 

William, 5, 46, 47, 72, 95, 
97. 99. 139. 178, 273, 279, 
285, 290, 291, 294, 295 

William A., 53 

William E. H., 285 

William Edward, 112, 122, 
125, 126, 134 

William Floyd, 272, 274 

William H., 285 

William Henry (M. D.), 
144, 149, 150 

William J., 284, 287 



Index. 



IX 



William M., 232 
William Matson, 236 
William Moritz, 3, 13, 15 
William Rogers, 284, 287 
William Schuyler, 51 
William Stone, 165, 175, 

176, 178 
William TowNSEND(Hon.), 

51 

Willet, 291 
Willis, 294 



Winifred, 97, 141, 144 
wolterus, 22 

WOLTERUS DiCTUS, 3 

Wright, 93, 97, 122, 187, 189 
Wright (M. D.), 95, 98, 100, 
loi, 103, 104, 105, 106, 
107, 108, no, III, 112, 
113, 114, 116, 135, 136, 
137, 146, 147, 148 
Wright E., 97, 142, 166 
Wright Eli, 142, 145 



NAMES OTHER THAN POST. 



ABBOT, Gordon, 267 
ADAMS, George (Capt.), 
123 

Lillian Hood, 165, 175, 178 

Marv, 112, 122, 123 

Thatcher M., 178 
ALEXANDER, James 

(Rev.), 238 
ALLEN Alice Post, 232, 240 

Francis Post, 232, 240 

George H., 232 

George Horatio, 240 

Langdon, 232, 240 

Mary L., 232 

Mary Louisa, 238, 240 

Mitchell, 232, 240 

Philip, 196, 247. 249 

William B., 238 
ANDREWS, Margaret, 57 
ANDROS, E., 69 

Edmund (Sir), 65 
ANDROSS, Edmund, 66 
ANTHIN, Edward (Mrs.), 
198 

Edward (Rev.), 195, 203, 
204, 211, 228 

Edward Henry, 203, 228 

Emilia Corre ,203, 228 

Helen Louise, 203, 228 

Madeline, 203, 228 

Rev. Dr., 204 

Sarah Post. 203, 228 
ARDEN, Eliza Dean, 112, 
115, 116. 118, 120 

Thomas B. (Col.), 118, 
"9 



ARNOLD, Benedict, 292 
Mary, 291 

B 

BACHER, Toris, 313 
BACON, Francis McNeil III, 

275 
Francis McNeil, Jr., 272, 

275 
Pauline Post. 275 

BAHR, Johann, 10 
BAILLIE, Matthew (Dr.), 
103 

BAKER, Evelyn, 232 

Evelyn Goldthwaite, 238 

Francis, 238 
BALL, Eliphalet (Rev.), 185 

Mary, 185 
BANKHEAD, John P. 

(Capt.), 181, 182 
BARCLAY, Andrew, no 

Charlotte Amelia, 1 10 
BARD, Dr., 105 
BARLOW, Francis ( Maj.- 
Gen.), 163 

Louisa Shaw, 150, 163 
BARNES, Joshua, 61 
BARRETT, Ester G., 238 
BARRY, Arthur Hugh 

Smith (M. P.), 192 
BARTLETT, Clifford, 292 

Franklin, 292 
BAYARD, EHzabeth, 112, 
136 

Nicholas, 310 
BAYEl'X, .Mary, lot^ 



Ind, 



ex. 



XI 



BAYLEV, Archbishop, no 
Dr., 104. 198 
Elizabeth Ann, i ro 
Guy Carleton, 1 10 
Mary, 95, 97, no, n2, 

116, 122 
Mary Magdalen, 108, ni, 

121 
Richard, 109 
Richard (M. D.), loi, 

103, 104, 108 
William, 108, 109 
BEADLESTON, Henry C, 
221 
Hcnrv Colwell, 224 
BEAMISH. William, 291 
BEATTY. David (Master), 

lOI 

BECK, Hilda, 150 

Hilde, 162 

Mr., 173 
REDDLE. Hannah. 89 
BEDELL. Rev. Mr., 204, 222 
BEDLE, Hannah, 91. 293 

Richard, 279 
BEERS. Cyrenius, 148 

Harriet, 97, 141. 144, 146, 
148. 149, 150 
BELLOWS, Harriet, 238 

Henry W. (Rev.), 234, 
238, 243, 244 
BENSON, Egbert, 197 
BERRIAN, , 96, 97 

Rev., 248 
BERRY, Louise, 125 
BERTOEF, Martinche, 48 
BESLEY, Ann, 109 
BIXIXGER, Abraham. 189 

Harriet, 14S, 187, 189 
BISHOP, John, 61 
BLAAU, Jaurian, 308 



Joan (Dr.), 312 

Johannes, 312 

Madeline, 248 

Magdalen, 95, 97, 195, 
196, 198, 200, 308, 314 

Mrs., iq8 

Waldron, 197, 306, 307, 
308, 314 

Willen Jansy, 312 

William, 312 
BLAN CHARD, Mabel 

Maud, 116. 120 
BOARDLEY, Elizabeth, 132 
BOGERT, Jan, 6 

Marragrietje, 6 
BORLAND, Alice, 268 

Ella Aufrcre, 267 

Georgette, 268 

J. N. (Mrs.), 270 

James Lloyd, 267 

John, 267 

John Nelson, 268, 269 

John Nelson (M.D.), 196 
267 

Julia, 268 

Madeline, 267, 268 

Maud Rives, 267 

Melancthon Woolsey, 196, 
267 

Rebecca Nelson, 268 

Rosamond, 269 

Susan Codman, 269 

William Gibson, 269 
BOYCE, James, 134 

Mary, 122, 125 

Marv Elizabeth, 134 
BOYD.' Marv, n2 
BREED, Allen, 61 
BRIDGE. Josephine, 97, 272, 

274, 27s 
BRIDGES, Harriet R., 285 



Xll 



Index. 



BRODHEAD. Edward C, 
236 
Lillian H., 232 
Lillian Hooker, 236 

BROOKS, Rachel, 268 
Shepard, 268 

BROWN, Anna, 230 
Brothers, 204, 226 
Ellen Granville, 227 
Ellen Whipple, 203, 227 
Fannie Wright, 227 
George Washington, 99 
Isabella Oldfield, 227 
James Muncaster, 195, 

203, 204, 226, 227 
Julia Elizabeth, 203. 227 
Julia Post, 227 
John Wright, 227 
Sarah, 230 

Sarah Elizabeth, 203, 226 
Waldron Post, 203, 227 
Waldron Post, Jr., 227 

BROWNE, Elizabeth, 95, 
97, 139, 141, 146 
Isaac, 139 
Peter (Dr.), 139 

BRUDEN, Emily Ann, 272 
William H., 272 

BRUEN, Rebecca, 57 

BRYDON, Emily Ann, 276 
WilHam H., 276 

BURNET, Caroline, 259 
Caroline Thew, 257 
Jacob (Judge), 257, 258, 

"259 

Mrs., 258 
Thomas, 60 
BYERS, Angelina, 97, 196 
Angelina Thayer, 200, 

230, 234 
James, 230 



CALTHORP, Mr., 208 
CANDLER, Duncan, 165, 

185 
Edith Beatrice, 165, 185 

Flamen Ball, 185 
CARHART, Charles Lyman 

(Rev.), 150 
CHALKER, Alexander, 56 
CHAMBERS, David, 259 
CHAPMAN, Eliza, 196, 233, 
234, 241 

Joathan, 241 
CHARLES, Mr., 280 
CHARLTON, Catherine, 109 

Richard (Rev.), 109, no 
CHEW, Chief Justice, 121, 

Margaretta, 121 
CHRISTIAN, Esther, 128 
CHURCH, Abby, 166 

Abby Mauran, 97, 141, 
142, 144, 166, 188 

Benjamin (Colonel), 166 

Clementine, 142, 145, 166, 
187, 188 

William (Capt), 166 
CLARK, Susan, 285 
CLARKE, Samuel, 67 

William Willis, yj 
CLAYPOLE, John (Sir), 

259 
Rebecca, 259 
CLERK, Isaac, 6 
CLOCK, Peter, 313 
CLOOS, Rachel, 314 
CODMAN, Lucy Sturgis, 

269 
CODRINGTON, Edward, 

311 
COE, Mary D., 49 



Index. 



XIII 



COLES, Oscar, 99 
CONKLIN, Ann, 290 

Jacob, 290 
COOK, Ellis, 60, 67 



COOPER, 



62 



Jdlin, fii, 63, 67 

Rebecca Patterson, 227 
CORNELL, Captain, 87 
CORWITH, Henry N., 285 
COSTER, Cbarles, 203, 228 

Helen Marie, 228 
COSTIN, Margaret Spady, 
124 

Robert, 132 

William, 132 

COTHEAL, Matilda, 196, 
266 

COUSENS, John, 280 

Marv Jane, 280 
CRARP.E', Ida P., 28s 
CRESON, Eleanor, 306 
CRESvSON, Eleanor, 197, 
308, 314 

Pierre, 314 
CRIEF, Major, 86 
CROMWELL, Elizabeth, 259 

Oliver, 259 
CRUTCKSHANK, 103 
CUMNOCK, Arthur, 263 
CURTIS, Jennie, 291 
Cl'TTER-COWELL. Miss, 

139 
CUTTING. James D'Wolf, 
263 

Julia, 263 

Juliana, 263 

Madeline, 263 

l\Iary Pomeroy, 263 

Robert Livingston, 195, 
263 



Walter, 263 
CYPRESS, J., Jr.. 305 



DALE, Emma, 144, 149, 150, 

152 
DANIELS, Annetie, 308 

DARBY, Harriet Burleigh, 
128 

John (Colonel), 128 
DAVIS. Charles H., 223 

Cornelia, 196, 2CXD, 248 

Joseph E., 241 

Mabel, 233, 241 
DAVOUT, Marechal, 210 
DAYTON, Samuel, 60 
deCOCK, Elizabeth, 7 
deCONINCK, Sarah, 7 
deCUADRA, Mariano. 145, 

191. 193 
Marie Anne Jeanne Louise 
Therese, 191, 193 
DeHAESE, Adriaan. 31 
D E L A F I E L D . Richard 

(Maj.-Gen.), 118 
deLASSANCE, Alfred, 203, 
221, 222 
Alice Therse, 221, 222 
Helen Post, 221, 222 
DE M .\C ARTY, Armand 

(Count), 208 
DEMENGE, Prof., 131 
deMONTFORT, Jean, 209 
nE MONTGEON, Alice Post, 

193 
Amedee, 145, 191, 193 
Gabrielle Marie Alice de 
Cavalier, 191, 193 
DENIS, Miles, 209 
deNONANT, Baron. 109 



XIV 



Index. 



DE PEYSTER, Jane, 1 19 
Johannes (Hon.), 119 
DE TROBRIAND, Baron. 
210, 211 
General Comte, 209 
Joseph (Gen.), 210 
Marie Caroline, 144, 165, 

184, 203, 207, 210, 212 
Marie CaroHne Denis de 
Keredern, 209 
Philippe Regis (Comte), 

184 
Philippe Regis Denis, 210 
DE VALLEAU. Margaret. 
109 
Pierre Toveaux. 109 
DEWEY, "Rev. Dr., 204, 206 
DIBRELL, Florence, 264 
DIX, Morgan (Rev. Dr.), 

211 
DOBNEY, Ellen, 19=;, 264 
DODGE, Eliza Pollock. 196, 

269 
DONGAN, Lord, no 
DORSEY, Priscilla, 122 

Du BOIS. , 31 

DUVALL, Eugene Post, 122, 
124 
George Howard, 122, 125 
Louise Berry, 125 
Mary Humerickhouse, 124 
Ridgely, 112, 122, 124 
Severn Parker Costin, 124 
Sophia Howard Post, 125 
Walter, 125 
Walter Post, 122 
William Edward Post, 
122, 124 
DWIGHT, Lucinda, 241 
d'WOLF, Francis, 97 
D'WOLF. Ellen, 264 



Francis L. B., 195 
Frank L. B., 264 
Henry, 264 

James, 195, 200, 263, 264 
Juliana, 195, 263 
Sherman, 264 
d'WOLFE, James, 97 

Francis L. B., 200, 264 



EATON, Matilda, 195, 203, 

207 
Matilda Wickham, 204, 

206 
EDGAR, James Clifton 

(Dr.), 227 



FARRAGUT, Admiral. 270 

FERRIS, , 99 

FFARINGTON, Edmund,6i 
FFORDHAM, Levt Joseph, 

67 
FFOSTER, John, 67 
FIXCKE, Benjamin Clarke, 

FISH, Hamilton (Hon.), 

212 
FLOYD, Abigail. 95, 97, 99, 

139. ^72, 
Alma. 95, 97. 99. I39. 142, 

273 
Elizabeth, 96, 97, 99, 139, 
272, 273, 274 
FORBES, Adeline, 97, 142, 
145. 191, 192 
Reginald VilHers, 2j2. 276 
FORDHAM. John. 61 

Mr.. 63 
FORDYCE, George, 102 



Index. 



XV 



-,62 



FOSTER, — 

Anna Grace, 285 

Benjamin, 70, 75, 284, 286 

Benjamin H., 285 

Benjamin, Jr., 70 

Christopher, 60 

Harriet, 285 

FRAKCIS, , 104, 105 

FREDERTC, Duke, 10 
FROTHINGHAM, Arthur 
L., Jr., 291 

Paul Revere (Rev.), 241 



GALLATIN, Albert, 185 

Goelet, 165, 185 
GERHARD, Count, 9 
GERHARDT, Count, 9 
GERRY, Almy Goelet, 185 

Elbridge, 185 
GIBBES, Governor, 251 

Margaret 196, 247 

]\[argaret Oliver, 24g, 251, 

Robert Morgan, 251 

GIBSON, Alice, 269 
Clara, 269 
Edwin. 196 
Edwin Post, 269 
Isaac, 97, 196, 200, 267 
John Travers, 269 
Julia, 196, 267 
Madeline, 196, 267, 269 
Mary Ellen, 196, 270 
Max Agassiz, 269 
Williarn Borrowe, 196 

270 
William Maitland, 269 
William Maitland, Jr., 269 

GILES, Anne, 112, 136 
Elizabeth, 112, 137 . 



GODLEY, Ino., 307 
GOELET, Isaac, 306, 307 
GOLDSMITH, Thomas, 60 
GOSMAN, John, 60 
GOSMER, Mr., 63 
GOUVENEUR, Frederick 

Philipse, 114 
Samuel, 1 14 
GREENE, Nathaniel (Gen.), 

292 
GRIDLEY, Thomas. 55 
GRINNELL, Minturn & Co., 

292 
GRISW()I<D, George, 247, 

252 
George IV, 247, 252 
GULVINCH, Cornelius. 313 

H 

HALL, John (Rev.), 239, 

240 
HALLOWELL, Robert 
Haydock, 268 
William, 291 
HALS, Frans, 30 

HALSEY, , 61 

Abigail, 284, 286 
Susan, 284 
Thomas (Sr.), 67 
H A .M I L T O N, Alexander 
Schuyler (Rev.), 142, 

145 

HAMMERSLEY, , 104 

HAMPTON, John, 61 
HANCOCK, John. 206 
HARD, Anson Wales, 203, 
226 
Anson Wales, Jr., 226 
De Courcy Lawrence, 226 
James Muncaster, 226 
lulia Post, 226 



XVI 



Index. 



Laura Warner, 226 
Nellie Wales, 226 
Sarah Anson, 226 
HARDIN, Caroline Hyde, 

150, 157, 159 
HARKER, William, 60 
HARRUWER. Pascal 

(Rev.), 243 
HARTEGG, Mary (Count- 

ess) 16 
H A S t'i N G S , Thomas 

(Rev.), 173 
HAVEN, Alice, 268 
HAVILAND, Betsv. 2qi 
HAWES, Charles Robert, 

304 

Eliza Ray, 304 

Gardiner Spring, 304 

Gilbert Ray, 305 

Julia Lynch, 304 

Matilda, 96. 97. 304 

Matilda H, 304 

Mary Louisa ,304 

Nancy Post, 304 

Peter, 95, 96, 97, 296, 297, 
298, 304, 305 

Peter Augustus, 304 

Rufus King, 304 

Rufns King H, 304 

Susan, 97, 304 

William, 304 

William H, 304 

William Post, 96, 97 
HAWKS, Rev. Dr., 264 
HAWTHORNE, Annie 
Giles, 136 

Archibald Charles Ed- 
ward, 112, 136 

Bayard, 136 

David, 137 

David Meredith. 112, 137 



Edward Post, 112, 137 
Ellen, 137 
Emily, 112, 137 
Eugene Post, 112, 136 
Eugenia, 136 
Francis Ludlow, 136 
Gertrude Meredith, 136 
Henry Rogers, 137 
John Maxwell Nesbitt, 

112, 136 
Ludlow, 136 
Mary Glover, 136 
Mary Schenckberg, 136 
Meredith Giles, 137 
Norman, 137 
Robert, 97, iii, 112, 136, 

137 

Robert Howard, 136 

Robert, Jr., 112, 136 

William, 137 

William Meredith, 97, 
III, 112, 137 

Wright Post, 112, 137 
HAYNE, Colonel, 257, 258 
HAYNES, Benjamin, 60 
HEERMANS, Augustine, 

309 
HENDRICKS, Aethe, 308 

Rebecca, 308, 309 
HENRY, Sarah, 233, 244 
HERBERT, Henry William, 

305 
HERRICK, James, 61 
HEYWARD, Nicholas, 166 
HIBBS, Russell Aubra 

(Dr.), 263 
HICKS, Phebe, 291 
HIGBEE, Charles (Rev.), 

292 
HIGGINSON, Barbara, 268 



Index. 



XVII 



Francis Lee ( Colonel ) , 

268 
Francis Lee, Jr., 268 
Juliet, 268 
Mary Cabot, 268 
HILDR'ETH. Thomas, 61 
HINDS, Bartlett, 284 
HOAG, A. D., 291 
HODGE, Angelina Post, 233, 
244 
Caspar Wistar, 112, 115, 

116, 233, 234 
Caspar Wistar (D. D.), 

238, 244 
Caspar Wistar (Prof.), 

196 
Caspar Wistar, Jr., 244 
Francis (D. D. ), 244, 245 
Lucy Maxwell, 244 
Mary Blancliard, 233, 245 
Sarah Madelina. 233, 245 
HOOD. General, 178 
HOOKER, Thomas (Rev.), 

55' 60 
HOPPIN, Katherine Beek- 
man, 165, 175, 179 
William Warner, 179 
HOSACK, 104, 105 
HOW, Calvin W., 235 
Caroline, 196, 232 
Caroline Tibbits, 234, 235 
HOWARD. George (Gov- 
ernor), 121 
Governor, ill, 112, 122 
John Eager (Colonel), 121 
Margaret Elizabeth, in, 

112, 121, 122, 124 
Priscilla, 122 

Priscilla Ridgely, ill, 
112, 121, 122 
HOWE. Daniel, 60 



Josiah, 61 
Lord, 81 

William (Sir), 81 
HOWELL, Edward, 60, 61, 

67 

Jane, 285 

John, 60, 62 

John (Capt.), 67 

Julia A., 285 

Mary, 285 

Phebe, 284 

Sarah, 285 
HO WELLS, Charles (Capt.), 
70 

John, 66 
HOWL AND, Judge, 173 
HUGHES, John Newington, 

280 
HUMERICKHOUSE, Mary, 

124 
HUNT, Richard Morris, 168 
HUNTER, John, 102, 107 
HUNTTING. Marv, 284, 286 
HUTTON, Rev. Dr., 204 
HYDE, Hester, 57 

William, 57 

I 

IRVIN, William (Rev.), 272, 
277 



JACKSON, James, 268 

Madeline, 268 

Rebecca Borland, 268 
JAFFREY, Isaac Gibson, 270 

William, 196, 270 
JAGGER, John, 61, 67 

Mary A., 285 
T.AMES, Samuel, 60 



XVIU 



Index. 



JANEWAY, Rev. Dr., 202 
JAY, John, 150, 163 

Laura Prime, 163 

Louise Prime, 150 

Mary Rutherford, 150, 
163 

Peter Augustus (Rev.), 
144, 149, 150, 163 

Pierre, 150, 163 
JENNLNGS. John, 61, 67 
JESSUP, Bethia, 284, 286 

Elizabeth, 284, 285 

Harriet, 284 

John, 61 
JOHANN, Count, 2, 9 
JOHNSON, Dorothy, 70, 75 
JONES, Alfred Renshaw, 
203, 228 

Fanny Coster, 228 

Isaac, 210 

Lewis Quentin, 203, 228 

Mary Mason, 210 

K 

KANE, Elisha, 202 

John, 202 
KENT, Emily, 232, 237 

Joseph Charles, 237 
KEY, Helen, 233 

Helen Purvis, 243 

Henry Harwood, 243 
KIMBER, Joshua (Rev.), 

236 
KTNG, Charles A., 181 

Corneha, 145, 191, 193 

Edward, 188 

Emilie Thorn, 145, 187, 
188 

Emma Thorn, 188 

Frederick Gore, 97, ill, 
112, 137 



Mary, 292 

Rufus, III, 137 
KINTZING, Elizabeth. 202, 

203 
KIP, Henry Spies, 228 
KIRBY, Amy, 291 

Hannah, 281 
KNAPP, Anna Morrill, 243 
KNEELAND, Anne, 238 
KOCH, Hendrick, 308 
KRUSEMAN, C. 32 



LAMBE, Bennet, 6, 7 

Richard, 7 
LARKING, Lambert Black- 
well (Rev.), 280 
LAUGHTON, John, 283 
LAURENCE, Esther, 290 
LAVANCHY, Henri, 269 

Magda, 269 
LeCOMPTE, Susannah, 108 

William, 108 
LeCONTE, Guillaume, 108, 
109 
Susannah, 109 
William, 109 
LEE, George Cabot (Jr.), 

268 
LENTILHON, Edward, 272, 

277 
LEONORE, Princess, 15 
LeROY, Ellen Rhinelander, 

266 
LEROY, Anson \'an Horn, 

196, 266 
LEVEREDGE, William, 93 
LIVERMORE, Adele, 142, 

145 
Edward, 97, 142. 145 

WilHam, 97, 142, 145 



Index. 



XIX 



William W., 142 
LLOYD, Edward IV, 128 

Rebecca, 128 
LOCK WOOD, Rev., 132 
LOINES. William. 85 
LUDLOW, Augusta Eliza- 
beth, 112, 136 

Francis, 112. 136 
LUDWIG, Christian (Duke), 

12 
LUPTON, Marv, 284. 286 
LYONS, Sarah, 311 

M 

MACFARLAXE. Kenneth, 

221, 222 
M.^cLAREN. Malcolm, 233, 

244 
Malcolm, Jr.. 244 
MACKEVEN, , 104. 

105 
MAGIE. William Francis, 

233, 245 
MAIN, Austin, 248, 274 
Austin Ledyard, 276 
Lucretia, 97, 196 
Lucretia Ann, 200, 248, 
249, 272, 276 
MARCH, Mr., 257 
MASON, John, 210 
MATSON, Katherine, 232 
Katherine Warble, 236 
William A. (Rev.), 236 
MAURICE. John (Count), 

30 

Prince, 30 
MAYO, Samuel, 93 
McBEE, Silas, 285 
McKAY, Horatio (Capt), 

272, 277 



Mcknight, Rev. Dr., 198 
McLEAN, Caroline, 196, 
247, 249 
Caroline Burnet, 254, 257, 

260 
General, 254, 256 
John (Justice), 254, 256 
Nathaniel, 257, 259 
McMURTY, George Gibson, 

Jr., 221, 224 
MESSIMER, Sara Laughlin, 

269 
MEYER, Henry von Len- 

gerke, 226 
MEYERS, Else, 5 
MILFORD, Mary, 285 
MILLS. John Kane, 226 
MINTl'RN, Marv, 290, 292 
MITCHELL, — , 104, 

105 
Adeline, 234, 238 
Albert Minturn Post, 292 
Alice, 150, 162 
Arthur, 150, 162 
Arthur (Rev.), 144, 149, 

150, 162 
Arthur Minturn, 292 
Catherine F., 285 
Edith, 150, 162 
Harriet Post, 150, 162 
Henry Post, 292 
Julia Post, 150, 162 
Lucy, 150, 162, 285 
Margaret Johns, 150, 162 
Roland Greene, 292 
Samuel Latham, 238 
Sarah Augusta, 292 
Susan, 150, 162 
Walter Howard, 292 
MITCHILL, Adeline, 196, 

232 



XX 



Index. 



MOALE, Judith Carter, 263 
MOODY, " Attorney-General, 

218 
MOORE, Clement C, 249 

William T., 196, 247, 249 
MORGAN, Alice Lee, 203. 
221, 222, 223, 224 
Carrie B., 291 
Edward D. (Gov.), 118, 

119 
Henry. 223 
MORIS, Priscilla, 96 
MORRIS, Benjamin, 203, 
221, 223 
Euretta Post, 221, 222 
James, ill, 112 
James Van Cortlandt, 97, 

III, 112 
Katharine Luquer, 221, 

222 
Lewis. III. 112 
Priscilla, 97 
MORRISON, John H., 241 
John H. (Rev.), 241 

MOTT. . 104, 105 

MOW ATT, Alexander. 96. 

97 
Elias. 96, 97 
Jane. 96, 97 
MRAVLAG, Lucille Veron- 
ica, 116. 120 
Victor (Dr.), 120 
MULFORD. John. 65 

N 

NAGEL. laenneke, 309 
NEEHAM, Edward, 60 
NEWBOLD. Clayton. 292 
NICHOLSON, James Ma- 
con. 128 



Joseph Hopper (Judge), 

128 
Rebecca Lloyd, 112, 122, 

124, 128, 130 
NICOLLS, Mathias. 69 



O'CONNOR. John Chris- 
topher, 247, 259 
O'CONOR, Norreys Jeph- 

son, 247. 259 
ODELL, William, 60 
OGDEN, Mr., 139 
Rollo. 150, 162 
OLDFIELDS, John. 60 
OLIVER, Emily, 251 

Robert, 251 
OPDYKE. Alfred Post. 150, 
162 
George. 150, 162 
William S., 144, 149, 150, 
162 
OSGOOD. Samuel (Rev.), 

235 
OSMAN, Samuel, 61 
OTIS, Tames. 166 
OTTO,' Count. 10 
OVERDORP, Mr., 27 



PARIS, Catharine S.. 272, 

277 
Mary U., 272. 2-j-j 
PARKER, Arinthea Darby, 
128 
Catherine Purnell, 132 
Charlotte. 284 
John Andrews. 128 
.'^arah. 97, 195, 203 



Index. 



XXI 



Sarah Elizabeth, 200, 202, 
204 
PARKHURST. Rev. Dr., 

218 
PATTISON. Henry, 88 
PAYNE, Postmaster-Gen- 
eral, 218 
William, 60 
PEACE, Mary, 90 
PEARSALL, Henry, 80 

Rowland, 80 
PELL, Cornelia, 223 
PERKIXS, Charles Law- 
rence, 215 
Mary, 216 
Marv Lawrence, 207, 212, 

215 
PHILIPS, Frederick (Capt.), 
114 

Marv, 1 14 
PHILIPSE. Catherine, 116 

Catherine Wadsworth, 114 

Frederick, 112, 114, 116 

Frederick, Jr., 114 

Margaret Goiiverneur, 

114, 116 

Alary, 114, 116 
PIERSON, , 62 

Abraham, 60 

Henr\', 61, 67 

Tames H. (Hon.). 72 
PLATTER. Rebecca. 128 
POMEROY. Maria Center, 

263 
POPE.'' Xancv, 294 
PORTER, David D., 22t, 
POST & MIXTURN, 292 
POWELL. Amos. 289 

Benjamin, 289 

Hannah, 75, 289 

John, 80, 288 



Joshua, 75, 80, 289 

Pemberton Hare, 264 

Phebe, 75, 289 

Richard, 289 

Thomas, 80 

Willets, 289 
PRETTY, Mr., 280 
PRICE, Bruce, 174, 261 

Emily Bruce. 247, 260, 
261 

Rebekah, 292 
PULSFORD, John Arthur, 

116, 120 
PURVIS. George T. (Rev.), 
244 



RAINER, Joseph. 67 

Mr., 63 
RAPALJE, Jane, 4 
RAY. Margarette, 304 
RAYNOR, Joseph, 60 
RE.AD, John H., 232 

Frances, 153 

Robert, 153 

Sarah. 144, 149, 150, 153, 
157 
REED, Harry Lee, 134 

John. 196 

John Hooper, 234 

Mabel Howard Post, 134 
REE\'ES. Albert, 72 

Elizabeth. 72 

Samuel Post. 72 
RE I' BELL. Jaques, 272 
RHINELANDER. .\delaide, 
196. 266 

Bernard. 97. 196. 200, 266 

Charles Edward. 196, 266 

Ellen Lucretia. 196. 266 



XXll 



Index. 



Emily Catharine, 196, 266 

Gertrude, 196, 266 

Laura Virginia, 196, 266 
RIDGELY. Charles (Gen.), 
122 

Prudence, 122 
RIVES, Constance Evelyn, 

267 
ROBBINS. Frank L. B. 
(Rev.), 254 

Marv, 291 
ROEBOTTOM. Percy J. 

(Rev.), 237 
ROGERS, , 62, 104 

C. H., 284 

Hannah, 284 

Harriet, 72 

Henry VV., 112, 137 

Margaret Helena, 295 

Obediah, 61 

Peter R. (Capt.), 72 
ROMEYN, Rev. Dr., 199, 

263, 264 
ROOSEVELT. Grace, no 

Helen, no 

President, 217, 218 
ROSE, , 62 

John, 61 
ROWLEY, Nancy, 112, 137 
RUSHMORE, Isaac. 291 

Marv, 291 
RUYSCH, Fredericus, 31 



SAMMIS, Nehemiah, 87 
SANDFORD, Major-Gen- 

eral, 118 
SAYRE, , 61 



ffrancis, 67 
Job, 61 



Thomas, 60, 63 
SCHAUMBURG, Count, 9 
SCHENCKBERG, Mary, 

112, 139 
SCOTT, Adeline Mitchell, 
232. 239 
Angelina Thayer, 232, 239 
Anne Kneeland, 232 
Anne Mitchell, 239 
Charles Hodge, 232, 239 
Hugh Lennox, 232, 239 
Mary Blanchard, 232, 239 
Sarah Post, 232, 239 
William B., 232 
William Berryman, 239 
SEAMAN, Thomas, 85 
SEARS, Philip Shelton, 268 
SELYNS, Henricus (Rev.j, 

48 
SETON, Alfred, 222 
Euretta, 195, 203, 221 
Euretta Barnwell, 204, 

222 
William, no 
SHARP, Ellen, n2, 137 
SHAW, Secretary, 218 

SHELDON, '- — , 102 • 

SHEPARD. Oliver, 195. 203, 

204 
SHIPPEN, Edward (Dr.), 
129, 131 
Lloyd, 131 
Lloyd Parker. 129 
SKIDMORE, Joshua, 285 

SMITH, 104 

Augustine Jaquelin, 226 
John Augustine (Dr.), 

104 
John Cotton (Rev.), 177 
Julia Cotton, 165, 175. 177 



Ind, 



ex. 



XXI a 



Fanny, 149, 150 
Richard, 61 
SMYTHE, Clement, 280 
SOUTTER, Ellen Muriel 
Beatrice, 227 
James Taylor, 203, 227 
SPEER, Margaret H., 132 

William McMurtrie, 132 
STABB, Annie Gardner, 150, 
157, 160 
Nicholas S., 160 
STANLEY, A. P. (Rev.), 

236 
STATIUS, Mansfield, 10 
STERNBERG, Henry 

(Count), 10 
STEVENS, Ebenezer ( Gen. ) , 

185 
STONE, Alice Maud, 144. 

165, 175 
Frederick Sigournev, 233, 

243 
George E.. 196 
George Eliot, 233, 234, 

243 

Herman Foster, 233, 243 

Madeline Post. 233, 243 

W^illiam Eliot, 233, 243 

William W., 175 

STRINGHAM, , 104 

STRONG. Julia, 199 

Silvie Livingston, 1 16, 
120 
STUMP. Alexander Hamil- 
ton, 132 

Ella, 122, 125, 132 
STUY\-ESANT, Governor, 

309, 310 
SUYDAM. Annatie, 5. 35 

George, 5 



SL'YDERHOF, J., 30 
SWAN, Allison Post, 272, 
276, 277 
Benjamin, 97 
Benjamin L., 2-/2, 274, 
276 
Caroline Emily, 272, 276 
Charles Fearing, 272, 277 
Charlotte Caroline, 272, 

Edward, 97, 272, 274, zj-/ 
Edward Henry, 2^2, 2yj 
Edward Henry, Jr., 272, 

2/7 
Elizabeth Mary, 272, 277 
Emily. 2yy 

Frederick Henry, 272, 2jj 
Harriet Stone, 272, 2jj 
Julia Post, 2^2, 2JJ 
Robert Otis, 272, 277 
Theodore Augustus, 272, 

\\ illiam Lincoln, 272, 276 
SWANN, Elizabeth, 195, 264 
Governor. 264 



TAFT, Secretarv, 218 
TAYLOE, Elizabeth, 128 

John (Hon. -Colonel), 128 
TAYLOR, Elizabeth Wet- 
more, 292 

Maria, 196 

Maria Farquhar, 249, 253, 

259 
Mary, 247 

\\'illiam Beade Kirkland, 
226 

TERRY, Harriet Wads worth. 
III. 112, 114. 116, 117 



XXIV 



Index. 



THAYER, William Turpin, 
230 

THURSTON, . 272, 

276 
TIFFANY, Katherine 
M'Lane, 267 

Louis M'Lane, 267 

Louis M'Lane (M. D.), 
267 
TITUS, Edmund, 85, 88 

Eliza, 290 

Elizabeth, 294 

Hanna, 88 

Henry, 290 

Jane, 290 

John, Jr.. 290 

Lydia, 290, 291 

Martha, 88, 290 

Marv, 85, 290, 291, 292 

Robert, 88, 290 

Rosetta, 290 

William R., 290 
TOFFE, Daniel, 87 
TOPPING, Capt, 63 

John, 67 

Thomas, 61 
TOTTENHAM, Violet, 145, 

191, 193 
TOWNSEND, Amelia, 290 

u 

UNDERHILL, Daniel, 290 
UPTON, Mary, 290 



VALENTINE, Elwood, 290 

Obediah, 87 

William, 290 
VAN CORTLAND, Augustus, 
no 



VAN DEN BERG, A., 26 

VAN DER VINNE, Vincent, 30 

VAN GELDER, Abraham, 6 

Susannah, 6 
VAN HAERSOLTE, Tanne- 

ken, 7 
VAN MULKEN, Richard, 8, 

59 

Tanneken, 6 
VAN RIEMSDYK, Evarina, 

28 
VAN TASSELL, Sarah, 6 
VAN ZUL, Jantje, 4 

Peter, 4 
VARICK, Richard, 296 
VISSCHER, Cornelis, 30 
VON BAHR, Catharine, 10 
VON BARDELEBEN, Ilsa, 

12 
VON BUSCHE, Adolph, 10 

Mechtild, 10 
VON GROTE, Henrv, 13 
VON HARDEGG, Marie 

(Countess), 4 
VON HASELHORST. Anna, 

12 
VON HERDING, Johan, 15 
vonHESSEN, Leonore 

(Princess), 3 
VON HOEN, Anna, 2, 15 
VON PALINGSLEBEN, i 
VON REDEN, Dorothea-Eliz- 
abeth, 12 
VON SCHAUMBURG, 

Count, I 
VON SCHILT, Catherina. 13 
VON STAFFHORST, Ernst 

Christian, 12 
VON WEND, Agnes, 10 
VON ZEDTWITZ, Wilhel- 

mina (Countess), 3 



Index. 



XXV 



w 

WADSWORTH, Elizabeth, 
145, 191. 192, 193 

James (General), 192 
WAINWRIGHT, Rev. Dr., 

266, 267 
WALDO, Francis William, 
196, 266 

Rhinelander, 266 
WALDRON, Baron, 308, 310 

Charles Wills, 311 

Cornelia, 308 

Humphrey (Colonel), 311 

Joseph, 308 

Resolved, 308, 309, 310 

Rutgers, 308 
WALLACE, Robert, 259 
WALROND, George, 109 

Grace, 109 

Joseph Lyons, 311 

Main Swete, 311 

Theodore, 311 
WALTON, Henry, 61 
WASHBURN, John, 93 

William, 93 
WATSON. John, 196 
WATTLES. George, 199 
WEAVER, Benjamin, 265 
WEBSTER, Daniel, 257, 258 

Hamilton-Fish, 207, 212 
WELLS, , 62 

George. 61 

Frederick De Witt, 150, 

163 
WHEELER. Josephine, 291 

WHIPPLE, Eleanor, 265 
Elizabeth Sherlock. 264 
Gwendolyn. 265 
Tane Byrd, 265 
John. 97, 195, 200, 264 



John, Jr., 264 

Mary Carter, 265 

Shirley Carter, 265 

Thomas Swann, 265 
WHITE, , 62 

Alice, 136 

John, 60 

Robert (Capt.), 284 
WICKAM, James, 285 
WICKS, Lemuel, 72 
WILLETS, Catherine, 291 

Henry, 290 

Robert R., 290 

Stephen, 290 
WILLIAMS, Roger, 292 
WILLIS, Catherine Post, 84 

Elizabeth, 75, 82, 91 

Henry, 75, 81, 82, 90, 291 

John, 84 

Mary, 75, 81, 89, 90, 93 

Phebe, 290 

Samuel, 291 

William, 7s 
WILLMAN, Isaac, 61 
WILSON, Mary, 269 
WING, Adelia Antoinette, 

295 
WRIGHT, Benjamin, 93, 

lOI 

Isabella, 203, 227 

Peter, 93 

Susan, 94 

Winifred, 91, 93, 95, 97 
WOOD, Elizabeth, 291 
WOODRUFF, John, 61 
WOODS, George, 6i 



YOUNG, Thomas, 272 

Thomas S., 276 
YOUNGS, John, 66 



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